Bonhams 1793 : A Mughal-style white jade tripod incense burner and cover

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24 Nov 2012 14:00 CST Hong Kong
Timeless and Translucent: The Harold E. Stack Collection of Chinese Jades
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A Mughal-style white jade tripod incense burner and cover

The bulbous vessel with high shoulders rising from a splayed foot and suspended on three floral stump feet, one side finely worked with a scene of Guanyin standing on a cloud and bearing her sacred vase and stem of willow leaf, the reverse with a young attendant holding a stem of lotus blossom and standing above a lotus pod beneath a phoenix in flight, the body finely worked with dense willow leafy scrolls, flanked at the neck with a pair of elaborate leaf handles suspending loose rings, all beneath a domed cover surmounted by a floral knop, the crisply worked stone of semi-translucency.
14.3cm high. (2).

Sold for HK$ 524,000 inc. premium

Footnotes

Provenance 來源:
The Jade Collector, Los Angeles, 15 May 1989

白玉痕都斯坦式三足瓶

玉白色，琢磨極薄，局部帶細小褐色斑紋。瓶直口，束頸，豐肩，高蓋上一菊花鈕。腹部成梯形，壺身兩面分別飾一觀音立像及一蓮子荷童，周圍莨苕圍繞。壺頸部兩邊各透雕一莨苕葉形耳，其下套活環。壺身下承三足，上各飾莨苕花一朵。

Category: Asian Art

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