A JADEITE 'QUAIL' VASE AND COVER QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY |

of flattened baluster form, set with a pair of dragon loop handles suspending loose rings, the exterior intricately carved in openwork with birds amongst flowering peony branches issuing from rockwork, depicting on one side a pair of quails and the reverse two long-tailed birds, the domed cover surmounted by an oval finial wreathed by further peony branches and a long-tailed bird, the translucent stone of variegated apple- and emerald-green tones suffused with darker and golden-caramel inclusions, the sandalwood base carved with intertwining pine branches and rocks