A pale green and russet jade 'bamboo' vase

Mid Qing Dynasty

Mid Qing Dynasty
Crisply carved as a hollow bamboo trunk with naturalistically-grooved nodes and issuing leafy branches, flanked by a pheasant perched on high rockwork, the stone of pale-green tone with reddish-brown russet patches, box. 14.2cm (5 5/8in) high. (2).

清中期 青白玉帶皮仿竹節形瓶

Provenance: an English private collection, and thence by descent. The collection was formed by the grandfather of the former owner who was the Assistant Commissioner, Shanghai Municipal Police, 1919-1928. His father was a Protestant missionary in China. The family returned to England shortly after the Second World War.

來源：英國私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今。本拍品前任藏家之祖父曾於1919至1928年任上海公共租界工部局警務處副官，其父為一名新教傳教士；第二次世界大戰爆發後，舉家回到英格蘭。

Compare with a related jade vase with bamboo and phoenix, Qing dynasty, illustrated in the Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade, 8, Beijing, 2011, p.223, no.181.

See also a pale green jade bamboo-shaped 'phoenix' vase, 18th century, which was sold at Bonhams London, 17 May 2018, lot 166.