A SUPERB WHITE JADE VASE QING DYNASTY, 18TH – 19TH CENTURY
the flattened ovoid body rising from a stepped foot to a short neck and lipped rim, flanked by a pair of bat handles, the body delicately worked on each face in shallow relief, depicting a pair of fish and a beribboned musical chime (qing) suspended from a wan symbol, similarly decorated to the sides with stylised cloud scrolls above cresting waves, the stone of an even white tone with occasional cloudy inclusions
12.3 cm, 4 7/8 in.
Provenance:
Jade vases of this form and with bat handles modelled in the round are unusual; compare a larger octagonal vase carved on the body with a related motif of a bat, fish and a chime, from the De An Tang collection, included in the exhibition Romance of Jade, Palace Museum, Beijing, 2004, cat. no. 57.
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the flattened ovoid body rising from a stepped foot to a short neck and lipped rim, flanked by a pair of bat handles, the body delicately worked on each face in shallow relief, depicting a pair of fish and a beribboned musical chime (qing) suspended from a wan symbol, similarly decorated to the sides with stylised cloud scrolls above cresting waves, the stone of an even white tone with occasional cloudy inclusions
12.3 cm, 4 7/8 in.
Provenance:
Jade vases of this form and with bat handles modelled in the round are unusual; compare a larger octagonal vase carved on the body with a related motif of a bat, fish and a chime, from the De An Tang collection, included in the exhibition Romance of Jade, Palace Museum, Beijing, 2004, cat. no. 57.