QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

It is rare to find a jade vase in meiping form. The form of the current vase is very similar to that of porcelain meiping made at the Imperial kilns during the Yongzheng and Qianlong reigns. A slightly larger spinach-green jade meiping (26.7 cm.) of very similar design was formerly in the Qing Court Collection, now in the Palace Museum, Beijing. The vase is similarly carved on the body with peach branches, floral blooms enclosed within ruyi heads on the shoulder, and lotus flowers within upright petals around the foot (fig. 1). It is illustrated in Jadeware (III), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1995, no. 64.