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Dear Mircea,
You may need to post a better picture showing the surface, and another picture showing the other side. It will help if you can give us the dimensions especially on the thickness.
Have you done a sound test? If the item is too small and too thick, it may not have a clear key. If it does make a good sound, then it may be part of a set. My perception basing on viewing the jpg and the thickness that the item was made more for symbolizing a jade Qing, and that it was not used as a real Qing. I did not say that the item was not genuine. I only said that it might have been made as an abstract form of a Qing.
I actually see some mild alterations on the surface that could be tiny raised crystals in the picture.
Just because the item has a provenance that it was purchased in Beijing between 1907 to 1909 may not be enough to qualify it as archaic. That was in fact in the period that had a large numbers of replica. More evaluation are needed to correctly date this item!
I have not been reading jade books for quite a while, but I did see sketches of jade Qings of this shape from old scripts, and I had seen some v-shape qings. I can't recall where did I see them. I have been to too many places over the last 40 years.
I hope that your findings are right, and you have the advantage of examining the item in person. The picture does not show enough detail.
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