A JADEITE TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER, LATE QING DYNASTY - REPUBLIC PERIOD China, 1880-1950. Finely carved and incised with archaistic dragon bands in deep relief, two dragonhead handles with movable rings, the domed openwork lid with a reticulated chilong knob. The legs with imposing Buddhist lion heads. Provenance: From the Georg Weifert family collection. Weifert (1850-1937) was a Serbo-Austrian industrialist and the first governor of the Federal Bank of the Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. Condition: The stone with several intrinsic fissures and associated losses due to erosion, both of which show areas of old filling. Extensive wear, some traces of use and a nicely grown patina. Weight: 1,410 g Dimensions: Length 19.5 cm from handle to handle Mineralogy: The mottled opaque stone is of deep and vivid emerald-green tones with paler veining and striations across the body. It has a hardness of 6.5 on the Mohs scale and is a quintessential example of a distinctive type of jadeite called jade-albite which was carved into a number of Chinese works of art beginning in the nineteenth century. It is characterized by Georg Weifert (1850-1937) a deep, vivid emerald-green color, opacity, and jagged lines of lighter, sometimes white veining running through it. Jade-albite is a gemstone found exclusively in northern Burma. It was eventually identified in 1963 by the late Swiss gemologist, Edward Gubelin, and was named after the village close to where it was first found in the foothills of the Himalayas, Maw sit sit. Auction result comparison: Compare with a snuff bottle carved from the same type of jadeite sold at Christies Hong Kong in Important Chinese Snuff Bottles from a Distinguished American Collection, 7 October 2014, lot 4, sold for HKD $300,000. 翡翠三足蓋爐，清末民初 中國，1880-1950。精細浮雕的仿古龍紋，活動的龍頭雙環，爐蓋鏤空，螭龍鈕。氣勢磅礴的佛獅首。 來源：Georg Weifert (1850-1937)收藏，同一家族保存至今 。Weifert曾爲塞爾維亞中央銀行大班以及塞爾維亞、克羅地亞與斯洛文尼亞聯邦銀行大班。 品相：翡翠有一些固有裂縫以及由於侵蝕而造成的相關損失，可見舊的填充區域。大量磨損，使用痕跡和良好的包漿。 重量：1,410 克 尺寸：從執柄到執柄長 19.5 厘米