White jade bowl with silver cover

[Silver covered white jade bowl]

Silver covered white jade bowl, clear, with a height of 11 cm, a caliber of 9.4 cm, and a foot diameter of 4.9 cm
The bowl is made of high-quality white jade. Slightly skim your mouth and feet. The outer wall is shallowly carved with twined branches of precious flowers, and the abdomen is decorated with a pattern of lotus petals. Inner wall light element. At the bottom, there is an engraved frameless “Jiaqing Year System” official script. It is equipped with a silver-plated pagoda-shaped cover, with the word “longevity” and bat pattern on the cover surface, and the cover rim is decorated with a circular pattern. The lower part is a hollowed-out silver-plated boat bracket, and the foot outsole is engraved with the inscription “Taixing Building was built in the second year of Xuantong. Jingping weighs three or three cents”. This kind of cover and support is commonly known as “tea boat”. There are many such tea boats in the Qing court, which are used with bowls and cups
This combination of jade and gold and silver craftsmanship brings the solemnity and grace of gold and silver to the extreme. It represents a kind of grandeur, and its style is incomparable with that of any previous generation