A spinach Jade 'deer and pine' Vase, 18th century,finely carved from the dark speckled stone in the form of two hollow pine stumps, their gnarled boughs still alive and producing needles , all carved in high and pierced relief above a deer, who sits by the root of the trees gazing up at a bat, the stone with fine soft polish, H: 17cm., good condition with minor original fissuringPreviously sold at Sothebys, lot 446, 18 May 2018