Censer and Cover
Chinese, white to pale celadon jade, oval cover with two frolicking foo lions, carved body with butterflies and flowers flanked by foo dogs with loose ring handles, scrolling foo dog-head feet, 5-1/8 x 5-3/4 x 2-1/2 in., internal fractures visible on platform below foo dogs on cover, below one foo dog handle, and to body, chips to ears of foo dogs, lid with minute chips to edges, dried residue in design, internal fractures in censer body. Provenance: John Frederick and Elizabeth Maue, New York/Jersey City, New Jersey, by descent
Condition
internal fractures visible on platform below foo dogs on cover, below one foo dog handle, and to body, chips to ears of foo dogs, lid with minute chips to edges, dried residue in design, internal fractures in censer body