A FINE WHITE JADE RETICULATED 'TWIN FISH' PARFUMIER QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

of circular shape, each well-fitting domed half similarly carved with a pair of carp swimming end to end reserved on a delicate openwork ground simulating basket weave, with tiny holes drilled to the opposite sides for attachment, the stone of highly translucent even white tone (2)

Collection of Thomas Fok.
Christie's Hong Kong, 1st May 1995, lot 752.

There are three fine veins (ca. 0.2 in.) in length to the rim of the cover. There is one fine vein (ca. 0.2 in.) to the rim of the base. The base and cover each have two pierced holes and one pierced hole on the opposite rim, all for suspension. In good overall condition.
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Compare a similar reticulated censer in the collection of the National Palace Museum in Taibei, Taiwan, illustrated in Gugong wenwu yuekan, no. 139, October, 1994, p. 33.