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1109 A SPINACH-GREEN JADE “HILL” CENSER AND COVER,
BOSHANLU
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY

The censer with a rounded bowl carved with a band of archaistic bird The shape of this jade censer, is based on bronze prototypes of
design and raised on a spreading pedestal foot carved in relief with Han-dynasty date, such as the Western Han, 1st century BC, bronze
further archaistic decoration, the cover carved and pierced in the form boshanlu included in the exhibition, Ancient Chinese and Ordos
of mountain peaks, the stone of rich spinach-green color with a few Bronzes, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1990, no. 45, and subsequently
minor black inclusions sold at Christie’s, New York, 16 September 2010, lot 890, from the
collection of Sze Yuan Tang. A similar green jade censer was sold at
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high
Christie’s, New York, 15-16 March 2015, lot 3045.
$20,000-30,000
清十八/十九世紀 碧玉博山爐
PROVENANCE
Baron and Baroness von Oertzen Collection.
Roger Keverne, London.
The Irving Collection.
EXHIBITED
London, Roger Keverne, Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art
and Ceramics - Winter Exhibition, November 2000.
LITERATURE
S. Howard Hansford, Jade: Essence of Hills and
Streams: The von Oertzen Collection of Chinese
and Indian Jades, New York, 1969, p. 122, pl. D7.
Roger Keverne, Fine and Rare Chinese Works
of Art and Ceramics - Winter Exhibition,
London, 2000, p. 72, no. 105.

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