Description:

This covered bowl is made to look like jade (jadeite). People associated jade with health and long life so they liked to have jade-like vessels for eating and drinking. It was easier and cheaper to mould a shape like this in glass rather than carve it in jade but it still required great skill.

Glass
Base height: 6.0 cm, base diameter: 10.8 cm, lid height: 3.5 cm, lid diameter: 8.8 cm, combined height: 8.6 cm

Creator: Unknown

Date: 1830-1900, Qing dynasty

Copyright: Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives

Object ID:N4691A&B