A SMALL WHITE JADE VASE QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

of flattened pear-shape, the quatrelobed body supported on a spreading foot, flanked by a pair of lion-head handles, the stone of creamy white, wood stand (2)

Collection of Katherine Berwind to Margaret Berwind Cox in 1946 and thence by descent.

There are minute nicks to both the foot and mouth rims. The stone is of very high polish. and the vase is in good overall condition.
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A similar white jade vase of slightly larger size is illustrated in Michael Knight et al, Later Chinese Jades, Ming Dynasty to Early Twentieth Century from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Hong Kong, 2007, no. 120, p. 132.