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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE HONG KONG COLLECTION
A HARDSTONE-EMBELLISHED GILT-
BRONZE FIGURE OF A CRANE
QING DYNASTY, 18TH – 19TH CENTURY
the crane with its head turned backwards, clutching in its beak
a spray of peach, its crown and feather embellished in various
hardstones including soapstone, agate and jadeite
h. 12.6 cm, 5 in.
HK$ 50,000-70,000
US$ 6,400-9,000
清十八至十九世紀 鎏金銅嵌寶壽鶴

In its detailed workmanship this figure is comparable to a qilin
censer dated to the Qianlong reign, cast with a funnel-shaped
opening at the back, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei,
included in the Museum’s Special Exhibition of Incense Burners
Throughout the Dynasties, Taipei, 1994, cat. no. 119; Similarly
embellished figures include a qilin censer, in the Victoria
and Albert Museum, London, illustrated in Stephen Bushell,
Chinese Art, vol. II, London, 1919, fig. 96; a censer of three
phoenixes, from the Rothschild family collection, sold in these
rooms, 8th October 2009, lot 1734, a ‘double-phoenix’ vessel
from the collection of Comte Fitick, sold at Christie’s Hong
Kong, 29th September 1992, lot 911 and another similar vessel,
possibly the pair to the previous, sold at Bonhams London, 6th
November 2014, lot 270.

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