A JADEITE QUATREFOIL VASE AND COVER QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

of quatrefoil form, with a pair of loose-ring handles carved and pierced in the form of chrysanthemum sprays, each lobe of the exterior delicately carved with a flowering chrysanthemum emerging from rockwork, all supported on four flowerhead-form feet, the conforming cover with a coiled dragon finial in high relief, the stone of a pale bluish-green suffused with milky white (2)

G.J Marsh & Co., San Francisco.
Collection of Mary Dunbar Bridegroom, California, 30th April 1976 and thence by descent.

There is a small chip to the tip of one of the petals of a flower-head handle, otherwise in good condition with expected wear.
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