QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

For related jade vases, formed as a large and a smaller finger citron borne on a leafy branch forming the base, see the example in the National Palace Museum, illustrated in Auspicious Ju-I Scepters of China, Taipei, 1995, p. 162, no. 87, and the example in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by M. Wilson, Chinese Jades, London, 2004, p. 52, no. 51.