Chinese Jade Bowl

A milk-pale dish with a thick, rounded rim and a deep, soft well.

This jade bowl is from Hebei Province, China, and is contemporary. A jade bowl is shaped by grinding with abrasives rather than cutting, so the walls take form slowly, and the polish brings out the stone's color and translucency. A broad shallow bowl in pale green-white, with a heavy rolled lip curving gently inward to a smooth recessed center. The surface has a satiny polish, with a faint cloudy glow in the body. It is 2.5 inches high and 8 in diameter.

Calm, round, and perfectly happy to hold nothing.