Page 154 - Bonhams Asian & Chinese Art November 2018

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A LARGE SPINACH-GREEN HARDSTONE
TIERED ‘PAGODA’ INCENSE BURNER
AND COVER
Late Qing Dynasty/early Republic period
The dark green stone flecked with brighter
green and ochre inclusions, the body raised
on three animal-mask legs and carved with
archaistic chilong scrolls, flanked by two
reticulated scroll handles each suspending
a loose ring, the neck also with reticulated
square scrolls, surmounted by a three-
layered reticulated cylindrical parfumier
carved with shou characters and the central
band set with four chilong each wrapped
around a scroll-like embellishment, the cover
shaped as a six-peaked tiled roof, each peak
terminating in a mythical beast suspending
a loose-ring bell, all surmounted by a tall
tiered finial carved with three chilong handles
beneath bats amidst cloud scrolls, wood
stand, fitted box.
64.5cm (24 3/8in) high (6).

£2,000 - 3,000
HK$20,000 - 31,000
CNY18,000 - 27,000
Provenance
A Swiss private collection, and thence by
descent.

Compare a related jasper incense burner
in the shape of a pagoda, illustrated in the
Compendium of Collections in the Palace
398 Museum: Jade 10, Beijing, 2011, pp.144-
145, pl.106.

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