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A RARE CHICKEN-BONE JADE TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER

Lot 2923
30.05.2022 11:30UTC +08:00
Classic
Starting price
HKD 2 000 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationHong Kong, Hong Kong
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ID 763474
Lot 2923 | A RARE CHICKEN-BONE JADE TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER
Estimate value
HKD 2 000 000 – 3 000 000
A RARE CHICKEN-BONE JADE TRIPOD CENSER AND COVERQIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)The censer is supported on three cabriole feet in the form of a paw extending from lion-head masks. The body is carved with taotie flanked by scrolling leaf motifs below a band of key frets to the rim and applied to both sides with mythical lion-head handles. The domed cover is carved with taotie-masks amid scrolling leaves below an openwork finial carved with a coiled dragon among lotus.8 1⁄4 in. (21 cm.) wide across the handles Provenance Howard A. Kaplan (1930-2017), CaliforniaThe Jade Collector, Los Angeles, 2 April 1991Harold E. Stack (1915-2019), SeattleSold at Bonham’s Hong Kong, Timeless and Translucent: The Harold E. Stack Collection of Chinese Jades, 24 November 2012, lot 216 Exhibited Palm Springs Art Museum, Jades in Chinese Culture, 1986, no. 130
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