Page 11 - Vol 111, Japanese Works Of Art In The Collection of the Queen, by John Ayers

1849, 1850

1849–1850 Pair of cups
RCIN 23789.1–2
Mottled dark green nephrite
China; late 18th to early 19th century
H 5.8 cm, 5.7 cm; D 9.7 cm, 9.8 cm

With thinly carved sides, rounded below, spreading lip and
splayed ring foot. The outside carved with a lotus scroll band
between borders of ruyi-heads at the rim and petal panels below.

PROVENANCE: Queen Mary, Christmas 1935. Presented by
The Hon. Mrs Ronald Greville, DBE.

LABEL: inside, the twentieth-century label of John Sparks Ltd.

INVENTORY REFERENCE: qmb.iii.279.

1851 Vase
RCIN 23891
Veined dark green nephrite
China; 19th century
H 10.8 cm; Dia. (at top) 5.1 cm

Copying a metal form, with tall, thinly carved, beaker-shaped
upper part set over a rounded bowl form, the base finished flat.

1851

NON-CERAMIC W ORKS OF ART FR OM CHINA 793