A CHINESE IMPERIAL SPINACH-GREEN JADE ZHADOU AND COVER

QIANLONG 1736-95

The straight sides and domed cover carved in low relief with shuangxi characters, the flat everted rim shaped as a flowerhead, decorated with five bats in flight amongst chrysanthemum sprays, all surmounted by a compressed finial worked as a shou medallion encircled by ruyi-heads, the dark green stone with black specks and pale inclusions, with paper labels for Marchant, 13.5cm. (2)

Provenance: formerly an American private collection, New York; purchased from Marchant on 20th October 2004.

Cf. Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum, Jade, vol.10, p.258, no.206 for a similarly formed jade spittoon and cover.