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In the 18^th century, the Ch'ien-lung Emperor was able to defeat the Dzungar and liberate the Uighur leaders who at that time were the Hodjas brothers held captive in Ili. In the twenty-first year of the Ch'ien-lung Emperor's reign (1756), the elder Hodja sent a jade bowl as a tribute to the Chinese emperor, who subsequently commissioned a poem to be inscribed on the bowl. According to the chapter on concubines in the Ch'ing History, a woman from the Uighur tribes was sent to the court in either the 21^st or 22^nd year of the Ch'ien-lung reign (around 1756-7). She was given the official title of Jung-fei, but has gone down in history known as "Hsiang Fei (Fragrant Concubine)." Due to the coincidence in timing here, one could suppose that this jade bowl had accompanied the Fragrant Concubine to the Ch'ing court as part of a major ceremony.

In 1768, the high official stationed in the Muslim regions by the Ch'ing court sent a pair of flower-shaped Mughal plates to the Ch'ien-lung Emperor in tribute. The Ch'ien-lung Emperor composed a poem as well as a composition for them, in which he determined that the providence of the jade plates was "Hindustan" in northern India. The emperor's appreciation of the Hindustan jades' delicate luster brought resulted in a large quantity of extravagant jade pieces imported from India and Turkey into Sinkiang and then on their way to Peking. The Ch'ien-lung Emperor was not aware of the existence of Turkish jades and considered all vessels with floral-themed decoration as "Hindustan jades".

Bowl with Deep Foot Central Asian Diameter of mouth: 13.6 cm, diameter of foot: 6.2 cm, height: 5.4 cm │1│2│

Round Plate with Carved Floral Patterns Mughal Empire Length: 22.9 cm, width: 21.7 cm, height: 1.9 cm │1│2│3│