A QUADRILOBED SPINACH-GREEN JADE VASE QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY |

the slender baluster-form body rising from a short splayed foot to a waisted neck, flanked by a pair of reticulated archaistic dragon scroll handles, finely carved around the body with a frieze of two pairs of confronting kuilong divided by leafy florets, the neck encircled by pendent blades issuing from a register of concentric circles below keyfret at the rim, the stone a deep green marbled with paler opaque inclusions and faint black flecking

Collection of Janis H. Palmer (1917-1984).
Gifted to The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, in 1986 (acc. no. 1986.957).

The vase is in overall good condition with only a few scattered minute nicks to the high relief, handles, rim, and foot. The color of the stone is slightly darker mossy-green than in the illustration in the printed catalog.
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