A large spinach green hardstone tiered 'pagoda' incense burner and cover


Late Qing Dynasty/early Republic Period The dark green stone flecked with brighter green and ochre inclusions, the globular body raised on three animal-mask legs and carved with archaistic chilong scrolls, rising to a reticulated cylindrical tower and crowned with a pagoda roof suspending bells, wood stand.64.5cm (24 3/8in) high (6).
|Provenance: A Swiss private collection, and thence by descentCompare a related jasper incense burner in the shape of a pagoda, illustrated in the Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade 10, Beijing, 2011, pp.144-145, pl.106.