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A green jade incense burner and cover 18th/19th century image 1
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The Property of a Gentleman 紳士藏品
Lot 189*

A green jade incense burner and cover
18th/19th century

8 November 2012, 10:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£50,000 - £70,000

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A green jade incense burner and cover

18th/19th century
The compressed body supported on a short splayed foot flanked by a pair of mythical-beast ring handles, the body delicately carved with a wide frieze of stylised taotie masks, the domed cover similarly decorated and surmounted by an openwork coiled dragon finial, the softly-polished stone of green tone, wood stand, box.
17.2cm (6 4/5in) wide (4).

Footnotes

Provenance: Jade House, Hong Kong, purchased on 24 September 1962
A Canadian private collection

十八/十九世紀 綠玉雕饕餮紋雙獸耳活環蓋爐

來源: 於1962年9月24日購自香港Jade House
加拿大私人收藏

A related green jade incense burner in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Masterworks of Chinese Jade in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, 1969, pl.33, as well as illustrated on the box cover of the publication.

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