A pair of pale celadon jade bowls
(2)Estimate $15,000 – $20,000
each carved in Moghul style with steeply rounded sides and flared rim, springing from a short slightly splayed foot enclosing a multi-petalled flowerhead on the underside, the exterior with two foliate sprays the central leaf rising to curl over a peach set below the rim forming a handle to either side, and interspersed with floral sprays, all in low relief rising from a radiating band of lappets above the foot and below a band of overlapping petals below the rim, the pale stone with slight opaque white striations and inclusions and some faint russet suffusions, box
(2)
16.5 cm diameter; and 16.8 cm diameter
- Lot Sold $24,000 (Hammer Price)
- $29,280 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Hartman Rare Art New York, 8 November 2010 (one bowl)
Eldred's East Dennis MA., 29 April 2011, lot 323 (one bowl)
Condition Report
One bowl - one or two very minor frits on the edge of the footrim and two or three on the rim of the bowl - difficult to see without magnification. The flowerhead on the underside has an area over one outer petal and two middle petals and one inner petal where the surface has lost its polish and slightly flattened. Otherwise good condition.
The other bowl generally good condition.
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