A YELLOW JADE VASE AND COVER QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD

of compressed form, carved with a baluster body rising from a splayed foot to a waisted neck and galleried mouthrim, the neck flanked by a pair openwork scroll handles, above incised scroll designs on one side of the vase, an outstretched bat depicted hovering over the vase amidst lingzhi-shaped cloud swirls, integrally carved with a small baluster jar similarly incised with scroll motifs, all supported on a base carved in the form of gnarled twigs issuing lingzhi blooms, the tapering cover surmounted by a finial in the form of a recumbent chilong, the stone of an attractive yellow colour with slight russet inclusions, wood stand

Spink & Son, Ltd., London.

In overall good condition. Nicks to the extremities of the the rim of the cover and carvings as can be expected. The catalogue illustration with a greenish tone.
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Charming jade vase groups such as the present were created in a variety of different forms, all carved with similar propitious symbols; a yellow jade group adorned with chilong scrambling above waves crashing against rocks was sold in our New York rooms, 9th/10th October 1987, lot 186; another depicting chilong, lingzhi fungus and clouds, was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29th September 1992, lot 726; and a white jade group, with a phoenix grasping a lingzhi sprig and the smaller gu vase supported on the back of an archaistic phoenix, was sold at Christie’s New York, 23rd March 2012, lot 1905.