PROVENANCE:
Sotheby's New York, 28th/29th September 1989, Lot 449

This white jade vase is made of a complete boulder of high quality white jade, of flattened form, the baluster body rising from a stepped foot, the waisted neck surmounted by a lipped rim and flanked by a pair of mythical beast-mask handles each suspending a loose ring, finely carved in low relief to each side with imags of pine trees and cypresses, all between bands of phoenixes and lingzhi above the round foot and below the rim, the domed cover similarly decorated and surmounted by a plain finial, the softly polished stone of an even color with some icy-white inclusions.