The vessel is supported on a tapered, hollow foot with a raised border encircling the foot rim, the oval body rising to waisted sides and a flaring mouth rim, one side carved with a circular, flanged handle. The exterior is carved in low relief with a border enclosing an Archaic motif, encircling the neck. The semi-translucent stone is of pale yellowish-green tone with russet striations in some areas.

PROVENANCE
Sotheby's New York, 1992
Spink & Son, London, 1994
Formerly in the collection of Professor Peter Hariolf Plesch (1918-2013) and Gerta Regina ‘Traudi’ Plesch OBE (1921-2013)

PUBLISHED
Roger Keverne, ed., Jade, London, 1991, fig. 2, p. 112
Sotheby’s, Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 3 June 1992, lot. 6

A very similar vessel, formerly in the collection of Robert C. Bruce, is illustrated in Sotheby’s, Important Chinese Ceramics, Jades and Bronzes, London, 12 May 1953, lot 13. Another similar example, formerly in the Malcolm Collection, was exhibited by the Oriental Ceramic Society and published in Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, Volume 23, Exhibition of Chinese Jades, catalogue, London, 1948, pl. 23.