Lot 827
827
A WELL-CARVED PALE GREENISH-WHITE AND SPINACH-GREEN JADE INCENSE HOLDER AND COVER
A WELL-CARVED PALE GREENISH-WHITE AND SPINACH-GREEN JADE INCENSE HOLDER AND COVER
A WELL-CARVED PALE GREENISH-WHITE AND SPINACH-GREEN JADE INCENSE HOLDER AND COVER
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A WELL-CARVED PALE GREENISH-WHITE AND SPINACH-GREEN JADE INCENSE HOLDER AND COVER

18TH CENTURY

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A WELL-CARVED PALE GREENISH-WHITE AND SPINACH-GREEN JADE INCENSE HOLDER AND COVER
18TH CENTURY
The incense holder of rectangular section is well-carved with a continuous scene of scholars at various pursuits in a rocky landscape amidst pavilions and trees, including pine, plantain and paulownia, all between key-fret borders. The stone is of pale greenish-white color. The incense holder is set with a spinach-green jade cover carved with a coiled dragon and a short base incised with a key-fret border.
10 ¼ in. (26 cm.) high
Provenance
Sotheby's New York, 22 March 2001, lot 57.
Anthony Carter, London, 29 November 2004.
The LJZ Collection, United States.
Literature
A. Carter, The LJZ Collection of Chinese Jades, London, 2022, pp. 96-97, no. 42.

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Lot Essay

Jade incense holders of this type are more often of cylindrical shape, however, a smaller pair of square section in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Zhongguo qiqi quanji, vol. 6, Shijiazhuang, 1993, pl. 84, where it is mentioned that they were made for palace use in the early Qianlong period. Another example of square section, of slightly smaller size (H. 22 cm.), also dated Qianlong, in the Musée national du château de Fontainebleau, is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, Jade: Des Empereurs à l’Art Déco, 2016, p. 229, no. 181.

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