A BEIGE JADE 'CHAMPION' VASE MING DYNASTY |

carved as a pair of archaistic cups, each decorated with a wide band of bosses between a band of stylized dragons and upright ruyi heads, conjoined by a heavenly bird grasping a circular ring in its beak, the wings spread wide, standing on a chilong which curls through the base to the reverse side, the softly polished stone with an attractive pale gray tinge and patches of sugar-brown

Collection of Grace Brown Palmer (1882-1966).
Gifted to The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, in 1967 (acc. no. 1967.95a-b).