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A FINE WHITE JADE BOWL
Qianlong four-character mark and of the period
The bowl with a deeply rounded well supported on a stout foot, the curving walls rising to a
sharply flared rim, the even white stone undecorated and smoothly polished, the base incised
with a Qianlong four-character mark, together with a tiered, lotus-form wood stand.
5 1/4in (13.2cm) diameter
$30,000 - 40,000

清乾隆 白玉盌 《乾隆年製》刻款

The bowl is exceptional in its execution and is a tribute to the high quality of jade work
at the Qianlong court, with the simple design highlighting the beauty of the stone matrix.
The four-character kaishu mark on the underside was reserved for prestigious pieces. For
another Qianlong jade vessel inscribed with the same mark, see a ‘dragon’ vase of gu form
from the Qing Court Collection, preserved in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The
Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Jadeware (II), Shanghai, 2008,
pg.157, no.118. A related bowl, formerly in the collection of Heber R. Bishop, Jiaqing four-
character mark and of the period, is in the holdings of The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
accession number 02.18.701.

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