A pale green jade archaistic incense burner and cover
Late Qing Dynasty/ Republic
The stout censer crisply carved around the body with an elaborate band of stylised chilong flanking a diamond-shaped floral medallion beneath a foliate swag at the rim, each handle formed as a ring suspended from a dragon's mouth, all raised on three curved feet each issuing from the head of a Buddhist lion, the cover with a coiling Buddhist lion with a cub playing on its back above a band of foliate swags, box.
22.5cm (8 7/8in) wide (3).
The stout censer crisply carved around the body with an elaborate band of stylised chilong flanking a diamond-shaped floral medallion beneath a foliate swag at the rim, each handle formed as a ring suspended from a dragon's mouth, all raised on three curved feet each issuing from the head of a Buddhist lion, the cover with a coiling Buddhist lion with a cub playing on its back above a band of foliate swags, box.
22.5cm (8 7/8in) wide (3).
Sold for
£31,250
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 28-29 September 1989, lot 536
清晚期/民國 青玉雕螭龍紋雙龍耳活環蓋爐
來源：蘇富比，紐約，1989年9月28至29日，拍賣品號536
Category: Asian Art / Chinese Works of Art
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