十九世紀末 / 二十世紀 翡翠瓜棱式雙龍耳活環三足獅鈕蓋爐

carved from a bright apple-green stone, of lobed quatrefoil form supported on three short cabriole legs, flanked by a pair of mythical-beast head handles suspending loose rings, each finely carved with a fierce expression, gaping jaws revealing sharp fangs, and a finely incised curling mane wreathing their single horn, the cover of conforming quatrefoil section with tapered sides rising to an openwork finial in the form of a single-horned beast bearing his sharp teeth, turning toward a playful cub on its side, the smoothly polished stone of variegated pale and darker mottled green colours

The censer and the cover are both in very good condition. The actual colour is quite close the catalogue illustration.
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The luminosity and coloration of the present stone is expertly displayed through the highly polished body of this censer that has been left plain to draw full attention to its beauty. A related censer, but with mask head legs, from the T.Y. Chao collection, was sold twice in these rooms, 29^th November 1979, lot 414, and again, 19^th May 1987, lot 1255. Compare also a white jade censer of similar form sold in these rooms, 11^th April 2008, lot 3098, and again at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1^st June 2011, lot 3752.