Live Auction 6277Harewood: Collecting in The Royal Tradition
A CHINESE WHITE JADE MUGHAL-STYLE 'CHRYSANTHEMUM' BOWL
Lot 581

A CHINESE WHITE JADE MUGHAL-STYLE 'CHRYSANTHEMUM' BOWL

QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

Closed5 December 2012

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GBP 211,250

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A CHINESE WHITE JADE MUGHAL-STYLE 'CHRYSANTHEMUM' BOWL
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The bowl with gently rounded sides rising steeply to the rim, finely carved over all with narrow chrysanthemum petals rising from concentric rows of petals to the interior and to the similarly carved short flared foot
5 5/8 in. (14.5 cm.) diam.

With Yamanaka & Co. Ltd., London, from where acquired by
Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood (1882-1947), when styled Viscount Lascelles, at Chesterfield House, London, 14 February 1923, presumably as a gift for
H.R.H. The Princess Mary, Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood (1897-1965), subsequently moved to Harewood House, Yorkshire, and by descent.

Specialist note

The type of carving seen on the present bowl, with rows of narrow overlapping petals, can be found on a number of Mughal-style jade vessels. See, for example, a large green jade dish (25.4 cm.) carved in similar fashion, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - Jadeware III, Hong Kong, 1995, p. 246, no. 201, where it is dated to the Qing dynasty. The current lot is more boldly carved than most examples of its type.