Lot Essay
Qianlong-dated dark green jade brushpots of this type have been published, some reticulated like the present example, and all with the same kind of fine, deep carving. Compare the example included in the exhibition, Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, March 19 - May 19, 1996, Catalogue, p. 69, pl. 35 and one illustrated by Pierre-F. Schnelberger, The Baur Collection, Chinese Jades and other Hardstones, Geneva, 1976, no. B98, which also has rocks carved on the base
