A celadon jade 'vine leaf' washer Ming Dynasty

naturalistically carved as a large vine leaf on a thick stem issuing two smaller leaves on the underside, the leaf delicately curling at the edges, the veins well defined with finely incised lines, with a qilong clambering on top, its tail curling as it grips the stem, the stone of a translucent celadon tone, hard wood lotus leaf and swirling wave stand

A Ming jade washer in the shape of a lotus leaf with a frog perched on the stem is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Jadeware (II), Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 159; and another with a cicada resting on the stem of the leaf instead of a frog, originally in the Qing Court collection and now in Taiwan, is published in Materworks of Chinese Jade in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1969, pl. 24.