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(detail) VARIOUS PROPERTIES

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A MOTTLED WHITE AND GREEN JADEITE THREE-PIECE
ALTAR SET

Comprising a rectangular censer and cover of fangding
form and a pair of fanggu-form vases. The censer is raised
on four tall legs, the long sides carved in low relief with
a pair of archaistic dragons confronted on a fat fange,
with further fanges at the corners and on the narrow
sides fanking an animal-mask handle. The cover is
surmounted by a pair of Buddhist lions. The pair of vases
are similarly decorated, with the addition of a set of six
dragon-mask handles suspending loose rings on the wider
sides, and interrupted by two similar handles on the
narrow sides. Together with G. Wills, Jade of the East, New
York, 1972 (frst edition).
Censer 13¬ in. (34.6 cm.) high, vases 13¿ in. (33.3 cm.)
high

$50,000-70,000

PROVENANCE:

Spink & Son, London, before 1972.
Alan and Simone Hartman Collection, New York.
Charles Henry Lundquist (1920-2006) Collection,
Los Angeles, California.

LITERATURE:

G. Wills, Jade of the East, New York, 1972, no. 125.

翠玉拐子龍紋方鼎式爐及方觚式瓶一組三件

The present garniture, as illustrated in G. Wills, Jade of the East, New York, 1972, no. 125.

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