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5108 | Qianlong Period,Qing Dynasty A FINELY CARVED WHITE JADE WITH IMPERIAL INSCRIBED TEABOWL

A FINELY CARVED WHITE JADE WITH IMPERIAL INSCRIBED TEABOWL

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Size: D10.8cm

Signed and dated: Qianlong Period,Qing Dynasty

Estimate:

Final Price: RMB 3,400,000


Qianlong Four-Character Mark
The deep jade bowl is carved with round sides curving to a flared rim,rising from a short footring. It is elegantly incised to the exterior with the imperial poem and the base is also inscribed with four-character Qianlong reign mark. The stone is of a pale white tone with fine polishing.
For a larger jade bowl in the collection of the Palace Museum,Beijing,carved with the same poem,see Zhongguo yuqi chuanji,vol. 6,p. 270,no. 53. Further imperially inscribed jade bowls of a similar shallow form are also published in the same volume,pp. 269-270,nos. 47-52 and 54-56.
Provenance
A Japanese Private Collection