A JADEITE DOUBLE-HANDLED VASE AND COVER QING DYNASTY, LATE 19TH CENTURY

the body carved to one side with a scene of two boys studying in a garden, the reverse carved with two cranes beneath a tree, the neck flanked by opposing handles in the form of mythical beast heads spewing water, suspending loose-rings, with a conforming cover, the pale lavender-suffused stone with areas of green and gray, wire-inlaid wood stand (3)