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Description A spinach jade Ming-style ewer and cover
Qing Dynasty, 19th century
清十九世紀 碧玉道教神仙圖執壺
of flattened pear shape with a long spout opposite a thin strap handle, carved on each side with a peach-shaped panel enclosing two immortals, the domed cover topped with a seated figure of Shoulao, the stone a deep mottled green colour
2
25 cm high
Condition Report There are two tiny V-shaped nicks to the top edge of one of the peach-shaped panels, a 5mm., oval infill to the top of the handle; a 4mm., shallow flake to the edge of the cover; nibbles to the edge of the flange of the cover; a natural hairline flaw running circa 6cm., up both sides of the spout and over the rim; and a 5mm., shallow flake to the edge of the foot.
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Literature Dennis Holman,
Lady Louis, Life of the Countess of Burma, London, 1952, photographed in the background of?the library at 2 Wilton Crescent, the London home of the Earl and Countess of Burma, colour plate iii, between pp. 8-9.
Provenance Sir Ernest Cassel (1852-1921).