QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

Compare a larger (22 cm. high) but less elaborately carved pale celadon example in the form of a pine trunk decorated with a pine tree and a crane along the sides in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Zhongguo Yuqi Quanji - 6 - Qing, Hebei, 1991, p. 199, no. 284. See also a white jade libation cup in the form of a prunus tree trunk carved with a chilong handle sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 3852.