A carved white jade brushwasher Qing dynasty, 19th century

in the form of a large upright flowerhead with overlapping petals and delicately furled tips, borne on a thick cut stem issuing a smaller flowering bud and an elaborate trefoil leaf accented with radiating grooves, set opposite a qilong gripping the sides and peering over the edge of the rim to form the handle, its long slender horn flicked back over its ridged spine and bifurcated tail scrolling to form part of the base, the translucent stone of pale celadon-white tone

Sotheby's New York, 15th June 1983, lot 110.