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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
A PALE GREYISH-GREEN JADE CENSER AND COVER
18TH CENTURY
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A PALE GREYISH-GREEN JADE CENSER AND COVER
18TH CENTURY
The rounded sides carved in crisp low relief with a taotie band divided by notched flanges, with a pair of broad upright scroll handles and raised on a shallow pedestal foot encircled by a rope-twist border, the domed cover with similar notched flanges separating pierced panels of lotus scroll below an everted knop carved with petals, all with incised key-fret borders at the rims, the pale greyish-green stone with some opaque white and pale brown mottling
5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) across handles, wood stand
18TH CENTURY
The rounded sides carved in crisp low relief with a taotie band divided by notched flanges, with a pair of broad upright scroll handles and raised on a shallow pedestal foot encircled by a rope-twist border, the domed cover with similar notched flanges separating pierced panels of lotus scroll below an everted knop carved with petals, all with incised key-fret borders at the rims, the pale greyish-green stone with some opaque white and pale brown mottling
5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) across handles, wood stand