A jade censer and cover Qing Dynasty, 18th/19th Century

carved in high-relief with three qilong to the exterior, their writhing bodies wrapped around the lower half of the vessel forming the feet, a lingzhi stem in low relief coming up from the underside hiding a natural fault, the waisted neck projecting four lion ring handles, the cover surmounted by a pierced coiled qilong knop, the stone of pale celadon-grey tone