A rare white jade 'sanyang' incense burner and cover
Qianlong
Crisply and exquisitely carved from white jade, the censer with a decorative band around the body containing stylised archaistic scrolls divided by six columns of low flanges, three ending in an animal-head foot, the censer with two handles each formed as a bird facing outwards with strongly-curving wings reaching back to the censer, the body ending in a bifurcated scroll, the cover similarly carved with a decorative band and flanges, beneath three elegant ram-heads, each with long ears and a pair of twisted horns, all surmounted by the reticulated finial carved with a front-facing dragon grasping the flaming pearl amid cloud scrolls, wood stand.
18cm (7in) wide (3).
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