A WHITE JADE PHOENIX QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

carved seated with wings neatly folded back over the body, the crested head raised and turned sharply to look over its back and clasping a leafy peony spray in its beak, the stone of very pale celadon-white colour with a light russet skin 

There is a tiny bruise to the petal of the peony otherwise the jade carving is in overall good condition.
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A slightly larger jade phoenix grasping a peach spray in its beak, was included in the exhibition Jades from China, The Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, 1994, cat. no. 337; and a white and russet jade version, with the bird grasping a lingzhi and peach spray in its beak, from the Brian S. McElney collection, was included in the exhibition Chinese Jade: Stone for the Emperors, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, 1986, cat. no. XXV.