Comprising three vessels: a censer, tool vase and incense powder box and cover, each supported on carved and pierced spinach jade stands; the censer carved in shallow relief around the gently curved body with stylised taotie masks and divided on each side by a lion-mask in high relief, applied with two elaborate lion mask handles suspending loose rings and all supported on a high spreading foot, the similarly carved domed cover surmounted by a broad everted lotus-lappet finial; the hexagonal pear-shaped tool vase similarly carved in low relief to each side of the body with archaistic strapwork panels, the slender neck with pendent lotus leaves and applied with two cylindrical lug handles (rim chip); and the circular box similarly carved with taotie bands and supported on a short straight foot, the domed cover centred with a medallion enclosing a pair of butterflies and encircled by a taotie band, the vessel's stone of a pure translucent white tone, the stands of a pale spinach green tone,
Comprising three vessels: a censer, tool vase and incense powder box and cover, each supported on carved and pierced spinach jade stands; the censer carved in shallow relief around the gently curved body with stylised taotie masks and divided on each side by a lion-mask in high relief, applied with two elaborate lion mask handles suspending loose rings and all supported on a high spreading foot, the similarly carved domed cover surmounted by a broad everted lotus-lappet finial; the hexagonal pear-shaped tool vase similarly carved in low relief to each side of the body with archaistic strapwork panels, the slender neck with pendent lotus leaves and applied with two cylindrical lug handles (rim chip); and the circular box similarly carved with taotie bands and supported on a short straight foot, the domed cover centred with a medallion enclosing a pair of butterflies and encircled by a taotie band, the vessel's stone of a pure translucent white tone, the stands of a pale spinach green tone,
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