An Unusual Spinach Jade Double-Gourd Vase Qing Dynasty, 18th Century

of flattened double-gourd form, the slightly spreading lip with rounded collar, all on a low, spreading foot, the waist flanked by foliage and vine-form handles with pendant rings, the body carved with flowering and fruiting scrolling foliate vines, foliage-carved foot, the stone of an even deep-green with scattered black and gray specks

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (Dane Bequest).
Ashkenazie & Co., San Francisco.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, May 1983.

Joan M. Hartman, Chinese Jade of Five Centuries, Rutland, 1969, pl. 24, pp. 96-97.
The History of Chinese Jade, Hong Kong 1978, p. 133.

generally good condition, possibly lacking a cover, internal flaws coming up from foot partly incorporated into carving, small associated chip to edge of foot at the terminus of one flaw, minor abrasions to leaves by ring-handles
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For a similar vase with cover see Stanley Charles Nott, Chinese Jade Carvings, Collection of Mrs. Georg Vetlesen, London 1939, no. 17, pp. 104-106.