A FLORIFORM CELADON JADE DISH SONG - YUAN DYNASTY |

the shallow sides shaped into six lobes rising at a slight angle and then expanding to a flat everted rim with six bracket-form 'petals', the surface unadorned aside from six notches cut into the reverse of the cavetto to define the lobes, the stone a sage-green color dappled with icy inclusions and with a russet vein at one side

Collection of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016) Irving, no. 105.

The dish with a russet fissure from the rim to the center that has opened slightly in places. There is expected wear, minor nicks along the edges, and some pitting all consistent with age and use.
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Jade barbed-rim wares in this style are very rare. Examples of similar barbed-rim dishes in metal include a silver dish that was excavated in an 8th century tomb in Inner Mongolia, and another silver dish that was discovered in a Yuan dynasty tomb near Shanghai, see James C.S. Lin, Chinese Jades from the Neolithic period to the Twentieth Century, London, 2009, pp. 66-67. A strikingly similar mottled gray jade barbed-rim bowl of this type in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge has been published in J. P. Palmer, Jade, London, 1967, pl. 19, and in op. cit., cat. no. 57.