A RARE INSCRIBED WHITE JADE 'PRUNUS' VASE WITH ZITAN STAND QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD, DATED TO THE BINGWU YEAR (1786) boldly carved from a stone of even pale celadon-white with a smooth glossy polish, the vase of flattened and compressed baluster form, flanked by a pair of elephant-head handles at the neck inscribed with a seven-column inscription in clerical script below the broad everted rim, a sprig of lingzhi and a long branch of prunus emerging from decorative rockery curled around the lower body of the vase, the bough laden with plump delicately detailed blooms and buds, the inscription bearing a date Qianlong bingwu, corresponding to 1786, all supported on an original zitan stand Quantity: 2 22 cm., 8 5/8 in.
A RARE INSCRIBED WHITE JADE 'PRUNUS' VASE WITH ZITAN STAND QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD, DATED TO THE BINGWU YEAR (1786) boldly carved from a stone of even pale celadon-white with a smooth glossy polish, the vase of flattened and compressed baluster form, flanked by a pair of elephant-head handles at the neck inscribed with a seven-column inscription in clerical script below the broad everted rim, a sprig of lingzhi and a long branch of prunus emerging from decorative rockery curled around the lower body of the vase, the bough laden with plump delicately detailed blooms and buds, the inscription bearing a date Qianlong bingwu, corresponding to 1786, all supported on an original zitan stand Quantity: 2 22 cm., 8 5/8 in.
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