A CARVED SPINACH JADE OCTAGONAL CENSER AND COVER QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD

each of the deep rounded sides of the body carved with a panel enclosing a leafy floral spray, the broad everted rim carved and pierced with alternating panels of butterflies and flowers reserved on a leafy scroll ground and set with four loop handles suspending loose rings, the domed cover similarly carved and surmounted by a pierced floral knop, the stone of spinach-green tone with small black inclusions, carved wood pedestal stand

Sothebys London, 20th March 1979, lot 249.

A related example illustrated in Stanley Charles Nott, Chinese Jade throughout the Ages: A Review of its Characteristics, Decoration, Folklore and Symbolism, London, 1936, pl. XLIII, in the collection of Her Majesty Queen Mary.