Lot Essay
Cf. a related bowl with a lobed collar but without loose-ring handles in the collection of Sze Tak Tang, included in the Min Chiu Society Special Exhibition, Chinese Jade Carvings, 1983, Catalogue, no. 227
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A FINE WHITE JADE CENSER AND COVER
QIANLONG
Of compressed globular shape with tall flaring neck carved in shallow relief with ruyi-lappets above a band of bats on the shoulder and interlocking ruyi-heads at the foot, the rim carved in high relief with a row of adjoining bats, the shallow domed cover surmounted by a waisted circular finial issuing four ruyi-heads above carved with shou and xi characters suspending loose rings, the translucent stone of slightly mottled tone (extremity of cover rim minutely polished)--6in. (15cm.) wide, wood stand
QIANLONG
Of compressed globular shape with tall flaring neck carved in shallow relief with ruyi-lappets above a band of bats on the shoulder and interlocking ruyi-heads at the foot, the rim carved in high relief with a row of adjoining bats, the shallow domed cover surmounted by a waisted circular finial issuing four ruyi-heads above carved with shou and xi characters suspending loose rings, the translucent stone of slightly mottled tone (extremity of cover rim minutely polished)--6in. (15cm.) wide, wood stand