A CHINESE ARCHAISTIC SPINACH-GREEN JADE VASE AND COVER

LATE QING DYNASTY

Shaped as a pouring vessel flaring at the rim, the central raised band carved with taotie masks, with pendant leaves incised to the neck and foot, decorated in relief with an animal mask suspending a loose ring, with a bearded chilong crouching on the cover, the stone of a dark green tone with black inclusions, together with an openwork wood stand inlaid with silver wire, 17.3cm. (3)

Provenance: formerly the collection of Mrs Jackie Somerville-Roberts. Mrs Somerville-Roberts' father Leo Clasen, from Luxembourg, was in the steel industry and formed his collection between c.1945 and 1965.