A FINE CELADON JADE TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER, QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

Auction Closed

September 23, 08:35 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A FINE CELADON JADE TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER

QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

清十九世紀青玉雕鳳耳活環瑞獸鈕三足蓋爐

supported by three channeled cabriole legs surmounted by lion masks, the steep rounded sides rising to a broad shoulder flanked by phoenix-mask handles, the scrolled branches in their beaks intermingling with the scrollwork of the handles, suspending large loose-ring handles below, the domed cover centered by a luduan and a cub playing with a ribbon, the pale-celadon stone of a high polish, fitted wood stand (3)

Width 8 in., 20.3 cm

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.

來源

卡內基藝術博物館，匹茲堡

This censer is impressive for the large size and even hue of the stone. By restricting the intricate carved decorative elements to the outer sections, namely the feet, handles and finial, the carver has created a frame around the undecorated body and cover to display the jade stone. A censer of this type was sold in these rooms, 18th March 2008, lot 32.

Compare also related censers such as two sold in our Hong Kong rooms, one with a mythical creature surmounting the cover and a pair of ringed lion head masks, sold 4th April 2012, lot 3276, and the other with four ringed lion-mask handles, from the Su Lin An Collection, sold 31st October 1995, lot 33. For a censer of this type, but with a more compressed body and the finial carved with three Buddhist lions, see one sold in these rooms, 13th March 1970, lot 114, and again in our Hong Kong rooms, 8th April 2011, lot 3235.