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A SPINACH-GREEN JADE ‘PHOENIX’ CENSER Compare this rare censer with a white jade Qianlong-marked example in
JIAQING FOUR-CHARACTER INCISED SEAL MARK AND OF THE the Palace Museum Beijing, illustrated in Xu Xiaodong in Compendium of
PERIOD (1796-1820) Collections in the Palace Museum, Jade, vol. 10: Qing Dynasty, Beijing, 2011,
The vessel is well-carved to the exterior with three evenly-spaced phoenix p. 136, no. 99. See also a similar green jade censer, also marked Qianlong,
with their wings outstretched, standing erect with their claws resting on the illustrated in Masterworks of Chinese Jade in the National Palace Museum,
foot rim. The stone is of a sea-green tone with a few scattered darker fecked Supplement, Taipei, 1973, no. 41.
inclusions.
3æ in. (9.5 cm.) high
清嘉慶 碧玉鳳紋爐 「嘉慶年製」 刻款
£25,000-30,000 $36,000-42,000 來源: 蘇格蘭私人珍藏; Louis Lyons先生於1980年所購,
€29,000-34,000
其藏品大部分捐贈予蘇格蘭格拉斯哥 Kelvingrove 藝術
博物館
PROVENANCE
Private Scottish family collection.
With Louis Lyons, purchased in 1980. Lyons left most of his collection to the
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow.

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