A SUPERB SMALL WHITE JADE SHALLOW CIRCULAR VESSEL
Qianlong four-character mark and of the period
The low scholar's vessel of drum shape with rounded sides and gently incurving rim, the flat base with four short horizontal pad feet at the cardinal points that encircle the base, a meticulously engraved classic 'thunder-pattern' leiwen band at the incurving rim and foot of the vessel.
2 1/16in (5.2cm) diam
Footnotes:
清乾隆 白玉鼓腹洗 《乾隆年製》雙行隸書陰文刻款

See Gerard Tsang and Hugh Moss, Arts from the Scholar's Studio, The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong and the Fung Ping Shan Museum, University of Hong Kong, 1986, pp. 140-141, no. 110 for a slightly later white nephrite jade water vessel bearing a Xingyouheng Tang mark and dated to the first half of the nineteenth century.