IDENTIFIERS
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id:	138826
accession number:	O.79A-1946

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 8 January 2014

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: One of a pair of translucent jade bowls of milky white colour. Each of deep round form rising from a neatly finished straight footring. Although the bowls are unmarked, the quality of the jade, their shape and highly polished surfaces, as well as the surviving label with these bowls, indicate that they may have formed part of the imperial collection during Emperor Qianlong’s reign
title:	bowl

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Bought from Messrs.Yamanaka, May 1921.Sold at Christie’s (May 1921) sale of the late Sir Robert Biddulph who looted them at the Summer Palace in 1861


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Oscar Raphael
creditline: O.C.Raphael Bequest, 1941, received 1946

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/138826





CATEGORIES
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category: jade

DATING
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CREATORS
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maker: Unknown


EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	The Immortal Stone--Chinese Jades from the Neolithic to the twentieth century