Djup rundad sida på kort rak fotring, med tre chilong-drakar som klättrar på sidorna som bildar handtag. Munnen öppen och visar tänderna. Stenen i en grå, vit, grönfärg. Mått 18x13x5,5 cm.
Nagg, liten brättesspricka. Naturliga inneslutningar och shatteringar i stenen.
Property of a private Swedish collector.
Compare one in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Object no O.54-1946. Bequeathed (1946) by Raphael, Oscar C.
Compare with a related white jade cup with chilong handles, Ming dynasty, illustrated in the Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade, 7, Beijing, 2011, p.160, no.139.
See a similar jade cup with three chilong handles, Ming dynasty, illustrated in "Zhongguo guojia bowuguancang wenwu yanjiu congshu: Yuqi juan", Shanghai, 2007 no.215. Another jade cup with three dragons, Ming dynasty, 16th/17th century, is in the Cleveland Museum of Art, illustrated by C.Y.Watt, "Chinese Jades from Han to Ch'ing", New York, 1980, p.165, no.139.
It is also interesting to note that a related jade cup with chilong found favour in the Islamic world and was presented by Shah Abbas I to the Ardebil Shrine in 1611, it is illustrated by S.Howard Hansford, "Chinese Carved Jades", London 1968, pl. 80B.