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八 81. Pair of openwork cylindrical incense holders, each carved with melons and butterflies amongst large leaves, branches and tendrils,

十 several of the leaves with relief veins and deliberate pitting carved to imitate where insects have eaten, all above pierced rockwork,

一 the openwork covers of pierced lotus-flowerhead form, the stone spinach green with lighter areas, the ends white with slight russet

markings.
鏤 Total height without stands 10 inches, 25.5 cm.
雕 Qianlong, 1736-1795.
瓜
蝶 Gilt metal stands.

紋 • From the collection of Charles William Angliss.
香 • A spinach jade openwork pair carved with ruyi-clouds and bats, with gilt metal stands and covers, are illustrated by Xu Xiao
筒
一 Dong in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum, Jade, Vol. 8, Qing Dynasty, Gu Gong Inventory no. Gu 93301/2,

對 no. 210, p. 251. The author also illustrates a spinach jade pair with figures in landscapes, p. 147, and a pale celadon pair with
spinach openwork lotus covers, p. 239; another pair is illustrated by Kao Yu-chen and Lin Shwu-shih in Jade: Ch’ing Dynasty

碧 Treasures, from the National Museum of History, Taiwan, no. 57, p. 120.
玉 • A white jade example with a pierced weave-style ground carved with different flowers, from the collection of Andrew K. F.

Lee, is illustrated by Humphrey K. F. Hui, Tina Yee-wan Pang and Yeung Chun-tong in Virtuous Treasures, Chinese Jade for the

乾 Scholars Table, an exhibition organised by the University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, 2007 no. 57,

隆 p. 125.

Charles William Angliss • This form of incense holder is inspired by late Ming dynasty bamboo examples; one carved with fruits and flowers is illustrated

by Simon Kwan in Ming and Qing Bamboo, an exhibition at The University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong

Kong, 2000, no. 16, pp. 178/9; another is illustrated by Li Jiufang in Bamboo, Wood, Ivory and Rhinoceros Horn Carvings, The

Complete Collection of Treasures of The Palace Museum, no. 9, p. 10.

• Melons, gua, and butterflies, die, form the rebus guadie mian mian, ‘May there be ceaseless generations of sons and grandsons’.

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