A Small Greenish-Yellow Jade 'Immortal and Phoenix' Vase Ming Dynasty, 17th Century

finely carved and hollowed out as a vase with an ovoid body rising to a waisted neck and an everted rim, the neck flanked by a pair of mythical beast masks, above a ruyi band bordering the shoulders, set on one side with a crane, its bifurcated body extending across the vase, the opposite side with a standing immortal stroking his beard, the stone of a greenish-yellow tone mottled with russet inclusions, wood stand

A private French collection.