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A fine and rare white jade and lapis lazuli
reticulated parfumier
Qianlong/Jiaqing
The body shaped from a single piece of attractive white stone crisply
carved with a continuous scene of a servant fanning the flames of
a stove to warm a steaming teapot, the wisp ascending towards a
crane in flight, set within a rocky pine grove enclosing a colonnaded
dwelling where a scholar observes a boy filling a cup with water from
a rushing mountain stream, the lapis lazuli base raised on five carved
feet, the rim also lapis lazuli.
7.3cm (2 7/8in) diam.
£30,000 - 35,000
HK$370,000 - 440,000 CNY290,000 - 340,000

清乾隆/嘉慶 白玉鏤雕人物故事圖香筒，連青金石蓋座
See a similar but longer jade incense holder adorned with lapis
lazuli base and cover, Qing Dynasty, from the Qing Court Collection,
illustrated in the Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum -
Jade - Qing Dynasty, vol.8, Beijing, 2011, p.241, pl.200.

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