A PAIR OF CHINESE TRANSLUCENT JADEITE BOWLS

A PAIR OF CHINESE TRANSLUCENT JADEITE BOWLS
LATE QIANLONG

Each carved from a superb pale grey-white stone with mottled green, lavender and orange inclusions, the circular bodies with everted rims and raised on ring feet, 15.9cm. (2)

Please note the stone has not been tested for colour treatment.

Provenance: from an English private collection, purchased in the 1940s and 1950s.

Jadeite ranks among the rarest and most precious materials to have been used during the 18th century. The material was brought to China from Myanmar along trade routes towards the end of the Qianlong reign and craftsmen at the Palace Workshops began working with it then. Most extant jadeite objects in the old Imperial collection date from the late Qianlong and early Jiaqing periods.