Provenance:|The Joanna Lau Sullivan Trust|Smaller-scale jade and jadeite vessels such as the present lot were frequently produced in sets of three to adorn the scholar's desk: typically an incense burner, a vase and a seal paste box. See for example a jade set illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Jadeware (III), Hong Kong, 2006, no. 71. The present lot would likely have formed part of such a set together with the following lot 8067.