AN UNUSUAL JADE INSET GILT-COPPER INCENSE BURNER AND COVER

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AN UNUSUAL JADE INSET GILT-COPPER INCENSE BURNER AND COVER
18TH/19TH CENTURY

Cast as an archaistic bronze fang ding with pierced white jade plaques carved with flowers, dragons and classic meanders inset to the body between raised flanges, to the cabriole legs issuing from monster masks, the tall everted handles and rims, the cover surmounted by a Buddhistic lion with a brocade ball on a lotus throne support, the petals inset with turquoise glass, repeated on the borders at the shoulder, the handles with further glass insets simulating coral and lapis forming formal floral-scrolls (chips to glass, breaks and small repairs to jade)
13 3/8 in. (34 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare with a closely related censer included in The National Palace Museum Special Exhibition of Buddhist Gilt Votive Objects, illustrated on the cover of the Catalogue and on p. 107. A pair of gu-form vases with gilt lotus flowers of similar design and decorated, also in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, were included in their Special Exhibition of Incense Burners and Perfumers Throughout the Dynasties, Catalogue, nos. 102 and 103.

(US$9,000-12,000)

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