A PALE CELADON JADE VASE AND COVER QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

of flattened shield shape, the square shoulders rising to the waisted neck carved with animal masks, supporting loose ring handels, with a further mythical animal mask supporting a loose ring, each face of the body carved with flowering prunus issuing out of garden rocks, with a thin band of key-fret at the rim and foot, the domed cover similarly carved with prunus and with a stepped rounded rectangular finial, the stone of an even pale celadon tone, with lighter inclusions and russet staining

Collection of Lord Hollenden.
John Sparks Ltd., London, 20th November 1954 (£300).

There is a 2.5cm long flaw/crack running diagonally from the rim. There is some small nicks to the rim and small areas of re-polishing to the corners of the footrim. There are areas of natural flawing to the stone, which have been disguised by the carving of the prunus or russet staining.
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