Of ovoid form with short neck and domed cover, the sides moulded with a pair of C-scroll handles below the shoulder, covered inside and out with a glaze of even pale celadon tone ending in a neat line above the unglazed footrim exposing a thin line burnt orange in the firing, box.

Provenance: Previously sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 20 March 1990, lot 737.  

Note: A celadon-glazed Qianlong jar with cover of this form is illustrated by Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. II, no. 866. One without the cover in the Hong Kong Museum of Art was included in exhibition The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, 1984, Catalogue no. 79, and another in the Min Chiu Society Exhibition of Monochrome Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1977, Catalogue, no. 75.