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A WHITE JADE TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER AND COVER
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A WHITE JADE TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER AND COVER
The deep body raised on three paw supports issuing from monster masks and carved in low relief around the sides with taotie masks interrupted by two dragons, their long tails extending upward to form a loop suspending a loose ring on the outside of each upright strap handle, the cover carved with a band of taotie masks below a coiled dragon finial, the stone of very pale greenish-white color with some opaque buff mottling and russet markings--7¼in. (18.4cm.) high, wood stand
The deep body raised on three paw supports issuing from monster masks and carved in low relief around the sides with taotie masks interrupted by two dragons, their long tails extending upward to form a loop suspending a loose ring on the outside of each upright strap handle, the cover carved with a band of taotie masks below a coiled dragon finial, the stone of very pale greenish-white color with some opaque buff mottling and russet markings--7¼in. (18.4cm.) high, wood stand
Literature
S.C. Nott, Chinese Jades in the Stanley Charles Nott Collection, West Palm Beach, 1942, no. 62, pl. LXXII, as Shunzhi