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QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
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A RARE CHICKEN-BONE JADE TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The censer is supported on three cabriole feet in the form of a paw extending from lion-head masks. The body is carved with taotie flanked by scrolling leaf motifs below a band of key frets to the rim and applied to both sides with mythical lion-head handles. The domed cover is carved with taotie-masks amid scrolling leaves below an openwork finial carved with a coiled dragon among lotus.
8 1⁄4 in. (21 cm.) wide across the handles
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The censer is supported on three cabriole feet in the form of a paw extending from lion-head masks. The body is carved with taotie flanked by scrolling leaf motifs below a band of key frets to the rim and applied to both sides with mythical lion-head handles. The domed cover is carved with taotie-masks amid scrolling leaves below an openwork finial carved with a coiled dragon among lotus.
8 1⁄4 in. (21 cm.) wide across the handles
Provenance
Howard A. Kaplan (1930-2017), California
The Jade Collector, Los Angeles, 2 April 1991
Harold E. Stack (1915-2019), Seattle
Sold at Bonham’s Hong Kong, Timeless and Translucent: The Harold E. Stack Collection of Chinese Jades, 24 November 2012, lot 216
The Jade Collector, Los Angeles, 2 April 1991
Harold E. Stack (1915-2019), Seattle
Sold at Bonham’s Hong Kong, Timeless and Translucent: The Harold E. Stack Collection of Chinese Jades, 24 November 2012, lot 216
Exhibited
Palm Springs Art Museum, Jades in Chinese Culture, 1986, no. 130
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