PROVENANCE: From Lynchburg, VA Private collector. Measurements: Height: 14.5 cm, Diam.: 11 cm, Weight: 1160 g Chinese Qing Dynasty White Jade Carved Pen Holder On Hardwood Stand. The jade has an open mouth, cylindrical tall body, and flat ring foot. Elegantly and smooth presented upon a carved hardwood stand with archaic ruyi and auspicious pattern, fitted original bottom base created Majestic pen holder. The white Jade has a lustrous tone, with pale-celadon iridescent and attractive sporadic golden russet inclusions, exquisite and detail, the jade stone have clean tone, with pale-celadon iridescent and moist milky appearance. Jade is precious because it is rare, and because the quality of jade corresponds to virtue. It relates to such virtues as benevolence, wisdom, righteousness, propriety, loyalty, and trustworthiness, and it also corresponds to the ways of the heaven and earth.