17TH CENTURY

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AN ARCHAISTIC CELADON JADE RECTANGULAR CENSER, FANGDING
17TH CENTURY
The censer is carved with two upright handles, the sides are deeply carved with rows of raised nodes separated by protruding flanges, all below a band of kui dragons. The pointed feet are carved in an archaistic style, emanating from four tiger heads. The stone is of an even tone with russet veins.
5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm.) high

Lot Essay

A very similar celadon jade fangding with additional shou character decoration, dated to the early Ming dynasty (1368-1644) is in the collection of J.H. Smyth-Pigott, Esq., illustrated by Stanley Charles Nott in Chinese Jades Throughout the Ages, London, 1936, pl. XXXVI.

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