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A WELL-CARVED PALE GREENISH-WHITE AND
SPINACH-GREEN JADE INCENSE HOLDER AND COVER
18TH CENTURY
The incense holder of rectangular section is well-carved with a continuous scene of scholars
at various pursuits in a rocky landscape amidst pavilions and trees, including pine, plantain
and paulownia, all between key-fret borders. The stone is of pale greenish-white color. The
incense holder is set with a spinach-green jade cover carved with a coiled dragon and a short
base incised with a key-fret border.
10º in. (26 cm.) high
$100,000-150,000

PROVENANCE:
Sotheby's New York, 22 March 2001, lot 57.
Anthony Carter, London, 29 November 2004.
The LJZ Collection, United States.
LITERATURE:
A. Carter, The LJZ Collection of Chinese Jades, London, 2022, pp. 96-97, no. 42.
Jade incense holders of this type are more often of cylindrical shape, however, a smaller pair
of square section in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Zhongguo qiqi quanji, vol.
6, Shijiazhuang, 1993, pl. 84, where it is mentioned that they were made for palace use in
the early Qianlong period. Another example of square section, of slightly smaller size (H. 22
cm.), also dated Qianlong, in the Musée national du château de Fontainebleau, is illustrated
in the exhibition catalogue, Jade: Des Empereurs à l’Art Déco, 2016, p. 229, no. 181.

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