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PROPERTY FROM A MIDWEST PRIVATE COLLECTION Compare a closely related bowl of slightly smaller size and
similar design and stone quality in the National Palace Museum
A LARGE MUGHAL-STYLE JADE collection, Taipei, illustrated in Teng Shu-ping, ed. Exquisite
‘CHRYSANTHEMUM’ BOWL Beauty: Islamic Jades, Taipei, 2007, pl. 254. The present
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD bowl, of Chinese craftsmanship, appears to have drawn
from and blended design elements from the area then called
nely carved with low rounded sides in the form of ‘Hindustan’. Once the popularity and market for Mughal jades
chrysanthemum petals outlined by columns of graduated had become apparent in the Qianlong period, Chinese artisans
relief carved acanthus leaves and centered by scrolled crests began copying and incorporating Mughal patterns into their
just below the mouth rim, the interior relief carved in tiers own creations. Several of the Chinese forgeries with blended
of radiating petals centered by a naturalistic cross-hatched Chinese and Islamic motifs made their way into the Qing
center, the same blossom carved on the base with the largest palace as tribute from the Mughal empire, creating confusion
tier of petals curled to form a low foot, the stone of a granular in the court. The Qianlong emperor assumed they were
white with faint striations and russet inclusions legitimate Mughal creations and accused the foreign artisans
Diameter 7⅝ in., 19.4 cm of ‘stealing Chinese styles,’ ibid, p. 279.
PROVENANCE $ 60,000-80,000
Gump’s, San Francisco, 1980.
Gump’s 1980
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