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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
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
Sotheby's New York, 20 April 1972, lot 264
J. J. Lally, New York
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
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, August 2003 - December 2004