A Small White Jade Archaistic Vase and Cover Qing Dynasty, 18th / 19th Century

finely carved with a flattened ovoid body rising from a splayed foot to a waisted neck, the neck flanked by a pair of kui dragon handles, the body carved in low relief with archaistic kui dragons, all below a key-fret motifs around the neck and the rim, the domed cover incised with a further key-fret and surmounted by a finial carved in the form of a 'Buddhist lion', the stone of a white tone mottled with faint russet veining