18TH CENTURY

For other white jade examples of 'Buddha's hand citron', see the two illustrated by R. Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, pp. 253-4, nos. 202 and 203; and another included in the exhibition, The Minor Arts of China, IV, Spink, London, 1989, p. 124, no. 174. Jade carvings of this form have also been readily adapted as vases. See, for example, a pale celadon jade vase in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by J. Rawson in Chinese Jade throughout the ages, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1975, p. 123, no. 406; and a large yellow jade vase in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - Jadeware (III), Hong Kong, 1995, p. 64, no. 52.