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Description: | Incense burner and cover made of mottled deep green spinach green jade in the form of a bronze incense burner. The bowl has a deep band of stylised bird design on an engraved key pattern ground and a border of inverted palmettes enclosing a key pattern design below. Three straight legs issue from dragon masks and two plain flat loop handles. The dome shaped cover has a similar band of decoration to the bowl and has three animals carved in high relief at the top. There is a circular flanged knob with a band of stylised dragon design.
Technique: carving
Material: spinach jade
Material: wood
incense burner made in China, Asia, (1934.71). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.25192 | Go to resource |
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