A jade 'Eight crane' vase and cover late Qing Dynasty, intricately carved and undercut as a flattened pear-shaped vase on a low waisted foot, with cranes holding lotus, fruiting peach and pomegranate stems, below a pair of cranes rising from cloud scrolls holding lingzhi fungus sprays, one connected by a chain to a hollowed bamboo terminal, and three surmounting the domed cover, the pale mushroom coloured stone with some russet striations(2) 21.