A CHINESE PALE CELADON JADE SPOON MODELLED AS A BOAT

MING DYNASTY

The exterior carved with swirling and crashing waves, the interior with a six character mark which reads ...feng tou nong lian, a fitted hardwood stand, 15.8cm. (2)

Provenance: formerly in a private collection, acquired in Hong Kong in the 1950s.

Cf. X G Sheng, Appreciation and Examination of Chinese Jade, p.311, no.608, for a related example shaped as a lotus petal.