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A SPINACH-GREEN JADE TRIPOD INCENSE 清乾隆 碧玉饕餮紋雙活環耳出戟蓋爐 配 白玉座
BURNER AND COVER WITH A WHITE JADE
STAND 來源：
香港蘇富比1989年5月18日，編號772
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
with a deep rounded body supported on three short mythical
beast mask legs, the exterior of the body skilfully rendered
in low relief with taotie masks and notched flanges, flanked
on the sides with a pair of loop handles, each suspending a
loose ring and elaborately rendered as a mythical beast’s head
extending from the rim between a pair of outstretched wings,
the domed cover centred with a finial decorated with a shou
roundel and surrounded with a frieze enclosing taotie masks
and notched flanges, the stone of a rich dark green colour
with white and black speckles, the shaped white jade stand
modelled in the form of three ruyi-shaped branches, each with
a concave roundel to house each leg of the incense burner,
reticulated with scrolling flowers and foliage
21.4 cm, 8⅜ in.

PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 18th May 1989, lot 772.
HK$ 400,000-600,000
US$ 51,000-76,500
Closely related incenser burners and stands are known, but of
slightly elongated proportions and with a dragon knop, such
as one sold in our New York rooms, 28th May 1991, lot 31, and
again at Christie’s New York, 29th March 2008, lot 470; another
sold in our London rooms, 28th October 1988, lot 307; and a
third example sold at Christie’s New York, 2nd June 1994, lot
123. See also incense burners of this type, but lacking their
stand and carved with bird-head handles and a dragon knop,
including one sold in these rooms, 8th October 2014, lot 3736;
and another sold at Christie’s London, 5th December 1994, lot
367.

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