AN EXCEPTIONAL AND RARE WHITE JADE TEAPOT AND COVER QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD |

exquisitely worked from a lustrous and even white stone with a compressed globular body resting on a short splayed galleried foot, the spout issuing from one side across a handle with everted scrolling ends, the domed cover centred with a short waisted stem below a circular finial skilfully rendered in openwork with a coiled dragon, wood stand