Lot Essay
A similar apple-green jadeite fangding from the Jingguangtang Collection was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 3 November 1996, lot 602.
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LATE QING DYNASTY, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Details
A MOTTLED GREEN JADEITE ARCHAISTIC CENSER AND COVER, FANGDING*
LATE QING DYNASTY, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
The tapering rectangular body carved in relief on two sides with a taotie mask and on the narrow sides with angular scrolls flanking the angular scroll handle suspending a loose ring and surmounted by a dragon head grasping a trailing leafy branch in its jaws, raised on four angular legs carved at the top with a lion mask and near the base with a projecting scroll band, the cover carved with further archaistic scroll as a background for the buddhistic lion and its two cubs playing with a beribboned ball, the semi-translucent stone of greenish white and pale green color with some pale russet areas and splashes of brilliant apple and emerald green color, the base carved with an apochryphal Qianlong four-character seal mark
11 1/8 in. (28. cm.) high, wood stand
LATE QING DYNASTY, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
The tapering rectangular body carved in relief on two sides with a taotie mask and on the narrow sides with angular scrolls flanking the angular scroll handle suspending a loose ring and surmounted by a dragon head grasping a trailing leafy branch in its jaws, raised on four angular legs carved at the top with a lion mask and near the base with a projecting scroll band, the cover carved with further archaistic scroll as a background for the buddhistic lion and its two cubs playing with a beribboned ball, the semi-translucent stone of greenish white and pale green color with some pale russet areas and splashes of brilliant apple and emerald green color, the base carved with an apochryphal Qianlong four-character seal mark
11 1/8 in. (28. cm.) high, wood stand
Provenance
E.A. Punnett & Co., Bejing, 18 September 1938.
Special notice
Seller explicitly reserves all trademark and trade name rights and rights of privacy and publicity in the name and image of Doris Duke. No buyer of any property in this sale will acquire any right to use the Doris Duke name or image. Seller further explicitly reserves all copyright rights in designs or other copyrightable works included in the property offered for sale. No buyer of any property in the sale will acquire the rights to reproduce, distribute copies of, or prepare derivative works of such designs or copyrightable works.
Further details
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