Sale 2388
Hong Kong
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27 November 2007
Price realised
HKD 1,207,500
Estimate
A FINE SPINACH-GREEN JADE TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) Of compressed globular form, supported on three lion-mask legs, the sides finely carved in low relief with stylised taotie masks divided by vertical flanges, the shoulder with a pair of loop handles, each formed by a peony spray and suspending a loose ring; the domed cover similarly carved with taotie masks below a finial formed by a pierced peony roundel, the stone of a characteristic spinach-green tone with black flecks 9¾ in (24.8 cm.) across the handles, stand
Provenance
Jessie Woolworth Donahue Sotheby's New York, 20 April 1972, lot 264 J. J. Lally, New York
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Literature
Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, no.81
Exhibited
Christie's New York, March 13-26, 2001 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, August 2003 - December 2004
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