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A rare jade archaistic rectangular four-legged incense burner, fang
ding
18th/19th century
Of archaic bronze form surmounted by a pair of upright loop handles,
standing on four curving legs, each side carved with a taotie mask with
vertical notched flanges in the centre and at the corners, the stone of
greenish-grey tone, wood stand.
13.9cm (5½in) high (2).
£10,000 - 15,000
HK$120,000 - 180,000 CNY94,000 - 140,000

十八/十九世紀 灰青玉雕饕餮紋出戟方鼎

Provenance: Jade House, Hong Kong, purchased on 24 September 1962
A Canadian private collection

來源:1962年9月24日購於香港Jade House
加拿大私人收藏

Compare a jade bowl of similar form but with a cover in the National
Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in The Refined Taste of the Emperor:
Special Exhibition of Archaic and Pictorial Jades of the Ch’ing Court,
Taipei, 1997, no.2. See also a Qianlong mark and period dark green jade
fang ding sold at Christie’s London, 11 May 2010, lot 161.