拍品專文
Small vases of this shape with archaistic decoration were part of incense garnitures comprised of a covered censer, an incense box and a vase to hold the incense tools, such as chopsticks and a spatula to rake or smooth the bed of ashes in the censer. For two such green jade garnitures of 18th century date that include a vase of this shape see Jade: Des Empereurs à l’Art Déco, Guimet Museum, Paris, 2016, p. 155, no. 132, and the garniture sold at Christie’s, New York, 14-15 September 2017, lot 1024.