Lot Essay
Compare the present lot to a white jade vase at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated in The Bishop Collection. Investigations and Studies in Jade, edited by George F. Kunz, New York, 1996, an illustration of which was reproduced by Christie's Hong Kong, 27 November, lot 1887. Also see a white jade covered vase with handles suspending loose rings in the Tianjin Museum Collection, illustrated by M. Tregear and S.Vainker, Art Treasures in China, New York, 1993, p.257; and another example included in the 75th Anniversary Exhibition of Post-Archaic Chinese Jades from Private Collections, S Marchant & Son, London, 2007, Catalogue, no.14.