A RARE SPINACH-GREEN JADE 'DOUBLE VASE' QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD

meticulously carved as archaistic yi-form ewer and cover, carved with a central taotie band and with a phoenix-form handle and finial in openwork, beside a flattened baluster vase, set to the shoulder with a pair of S-scroll handles, with a large gnarled lingzhi stem entwined between the two vessels, issuing numerous small lingzhi heads, the stone of a mottled spinach-green color (2)

Collection of Sir Ernest Joseph Cassel (1852-1921).
Collection of Lady Delamere (1906-1986). 

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1961-1998. 

In very good condition. A 0.3 cm chip to the underside of one of the lingzhi heads, the rims of each of the vessels with minute 0.1 cm chips; the foot ring of the vase with two minute rim chips.
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Compare a similar white jade 'double vase' in the National Palace Museum, carved with a zun-shaped vase beside a covered baluster vase, with a similar lingzhi stem entwined, supporting two phoenix, included in the exhibition The All Complete Qianlong: The Aesthetics Tastes of the Qing Emperor Gaozong, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2013, cat. no. II-3.44.