A MUGHAL-STYLE PALE GREEN JADE 'CHRYSANTHEMUM' DISH

18th/19th century

18th/19th century
The thin semi-translucent vessel delicately carved with radiating bands of petals encircling a central cross-hatched roundel, the stone of even pale green tone. 8.6cm (3 3/8in) diam.

十八/十九世紀 痕都斯坦式青白玉菊瓣盤

Provenance:
Parry Collection, London, and thence by descent

來源：
倫敦Parry家族收藏，並由後人保存迄今

Symbolic of longevity in China, chrysanthemums were also associated with a joyful retirement. They were the favourite flowers of Tao Qian, or Tao Yuanming (365-427), a poet living during a turbulent period in China who retired in midlife to a small estate to live out his days in rustic obscurity, drinking wine and writing poetry; see S.Nelson, 'Revisiting the Eastern Fence: Tao Qian's Chrysanthemums', The Art Bulletin, 2001, vol.83, no.3, pp.437-460.

A related larger jade chrysanthemum-shaped dish, is in the Avery Brundage collection, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, acc.no.B60J307. See also a related Mughal-style white jade chrysanthemum-shaped dish, 18th century, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Exquisite Beauty: Islamic Jades, Taipei, 2007, p.207.

A related pale green jade chrysanthemum dish, 18th century, was sold at Bonhams Knightsbridge, 8 May 2017, lot 162; another related celadon jade chrysanthemum-shaped dish, Qing dynasty, was sold at Bonhams New York, 21 July 2020, lot 89.

菊花紋飾意指長壽有徵、多子多福；又因其耐霜雪之特性而被賦予人格化的精神。晉陶淵明不為五斗米而折腰，辭官歸田，淡泊明志；其「採菊東籬下，悠然見南山」的逍遙適意，從此賦予了菊花堅韌而不流俗的文人氣節。

參考舊金山亞洲美術博物院布倫德基氏收藏之一例玉雕菊瓣式盤，館藏編號B60J307，形制相仿惟尺寸稍大。台北國立故宮博物院亦藏有一例清葉紋花式盤，收錄於鄧淑萍編著，《國色天香——伊斯蘭玉器》，台北，2007年，頁207，可為比對。

倫敦邦瀚斯騎士橋於2017年5月8日售出一例十八世紀青白玉菊瓣盤，拍品編號162；以及紐約邦瀚斯於2020年7月21日售出一例清青白玉痕都斯坦式菊紋盤，拍品編號89，可資參考。