AN INLAID GREENISH-WHITE JADE VASE AND COVER
AN INLAID GREENISH-WHITE JADE VASE AND COVER
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
The group is carved in the form of a vase emerging from rocks, with a pair of scroll-form handles to the neck. It is delicately-inlaid to the sides with spinach-green jade and tourmaline to depict flowering prunus branches and wannianqing with berries. The cover is carved with a band of archaistic scroll, inset with tourmaline to the finial. The stone is of an even pale tone.
10 1/2 in. (26.5 cm.) high
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Acquired in London in the 1960s & 70s
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AN INLAID GREENISH-WHITE JADE VASE AND COVER
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
The group is carved in the form of a vase emerging from rocks, with a pair of scroll-form handles to the neck. It is delicately-inlaid to the sides with spinach-green jade and tourmaline to depict flowering prunus branches and wannianqing with berries. The cover is carved with a band of archaistic scroll, inset with tourmaline to the finial. The stone is of an even pale tone.
10 1/2 in. (26.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired in London in the 1960s & 70s
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