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Property from a Distinguished European Private Collection

歐洲顯赫私人收藏

(Lots 53-55)
Lot 53

A small pale green jade incense burner and cover
Late Qing Dynasty

4 June 2015, 10:30 HKT
Hong Kong, Six Pacific Place

HK$120,000 - HK$180,000

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A small pale green jade incense burner and cover

Late Qing Dynasty
The compressed globular body supported on three short waisted feet, with delicately carved scroll handles, each with a loose ring suspending from a dragon head grasping a scrolling tendril in its mouth, the slightly compressed domed cover surmounted by a pair of Buddhist lions flanking a brocade ball, the stone of an even pale tone, wood stand.
10.6cm (4 1/2in) wide (3).

Footnotes

清晚期 青玉雕龍耳活環三足蓋爐

Provenance 來源:
An English private collection, acquired before 1980, and thence by descent

英國私人收藏,於1980年前購得,並由家族成員繼承

Compare a related larger pale green jade incense burner and cover, late Qing dynasty/Republic period, with taotie design, from the Avery Brundage Collection, in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, ref.no.B60J25.

三藩市亞洲藝術博物館藏Avery Brundage舊藏一件清晚期/民國青玉雕饕餮紋蓋爐可作比較,館藏編號B60J25。

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