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the rectangular body with projecting tubular corners terminating in short waisted feet, finely carved around the exterior with an upper frieze of
taotie alternating with entwined dragons above a rope twist border, and lower band of phoenix scrolls and lappets enclosing
shou characters, two sides set with animal's head loop handles suspending loose rings, the fitted knopped and domed wood cover intricately carved and pierced with floral scrolls overall, the wood stand with a raised platform supported on splayed corner feet pierced with angular scrollwork, box
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15.8 cm wide
PROVENANCE
Fine Furniture, Decorative Arts & Asian Arts, Bonhams, Sydney, 27 May 2012, lot 90
Private Collection, Sydney
OTHER NOTES
Censers of this archaic bronze form were popular in the Qing courts, particularly in the reigns of the Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors. Several have been published including one in The Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, illustrated in
The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Jadeware (lll), Hong Kong, 1995, p. 190, pl. 156; another similar white jade vessel, also lacking its original cover illustrated in
Jade: Ch'ing Dynasty Treasures, National Museum of History, Taipei, 1997, no. 87.
See also a very similar vessel from the Leonard Gow Collection, sold Christie's, London, 15 May 2012, lot 198; and another sold Christie's, New York, 17 September 2008, lot 296