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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
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A WHITE JADE ARCHAISTIC
RECTANGULAR CENSER AND COVER
18TH CENTURY
The censer is carved on the two long sides with
taotie masks reserved on a leiwen ground and
divided by notched fanges, which are repeated at
the corners, all below a waisted neck decorated
with circular bosses, and is fanked at the ends
by a pair of handles carved as dragons pulling
themselves up to the rim. The cover is carved
with archaistic dragons fanking and separated
by fanges below a rectangular knob carved at the
bottom with a rope-twist band and around the
sides with lotus blossoms below a band of key
fret. The semi-translucent stone of greenish-white
color has some opaque mottling.
7º in. (18.5 cm.) wide

$40,000-60,000
清十八世紀 白玉饕餮紋方爐

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