A PAIR OF SMALL PALE GREYISH-GREEN TRANSLUCENT JADE CENSERS AND COVERS
A PAIR OF SMALL PALE GREYISH-GREEN TRANSLUCENT JADE CENSERS AND COVERS

LATE QING DYNASTY

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A PAIR OF SMALL PALE GREYISH-GREEN TRANSLUCENT JADE CENSERS AND COVERS
LATE QING DYNASTY
Thinly carved, each bowl raised on a pedestal foot and with a pair of delicate butterfly and loose ring handles projecting from the everted rim, the slightly domed covers with a hollowed bud finial above a pierced band of leaf tips and an outer band of pierced foliate scroll interrupted by four petal reserves enclosing one character of an apochryphal four-character Qianlong yuzhi seal mark, the translucent stone of pale grey-green color with some pale brown mottling
4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) across handles (2)

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