CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIIEME-XIXEME SIECLE

The Twelve Ornaments are frequently adopted as decoration on textiles, symbolising the sun, the moon, stars, mountains, dragon, bird, temple vessels, aquatic grasses, fire with flaming scrolls, millet grains, the axe, and the fu. See an example of a square spinach-green jade box and cover similarly decorated with the Twelve Ornaments, in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in
The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - Jadeware III, Hong Kong, 2000, p.225, pl. 184.