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A PALE GREEN JADE ‘HORSE AND MONKEY’ BELT BUCKLE
17th/18th century
Crisply carved as a recumbent horse with head turned back over its
right shoulder looking at a monkey perched precariously on its back
and clasping on the reins, the stone with some cloudy inclusions.
8cm (3 1/8in) long.
£1,000 - 1,500
CNY9,000 - 14,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

十七/十八世紀 青白玉馬上封侯帶飾

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter
Exhibition, London, 2013, no.75.

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2013年，
編號75

The monkey (hou 猴), is a homophone for ‘marquis’ (hou 侯), which on
top of a horse (mashang 馬上), also meaning ‘quickly’, is a rebus for
‘quick ennoblement’ or rising quickly up the ladder of success in one’s
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A PALE GREEN JADE ‘THREE AUSPICIOUS FRUITS’ BELT
BUCKLE
18th century
Deftly carved as a peach, pomegranate and finger citron, sanduo,
borne on a gnarled branch, the reverse carved with two circular studs,
the stone of pale green tone. 7.5cm (3in) long.
£800 - 1,200
CNY7,200 - 11,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

十八世紀 青白玉雕三多紋帶扣

218
A WHITE-GREY JADE ‘CHILONG’ BELT BUCKLE AND HOOK
18th century
Deftly carved in openwork in the form of an archaistic chilong, the
flattened head forming the hook while a smaller chilong with bifurcated
tail perches on its sinuous body grasping in its mouth a foliate spray,
the other section similarly modelled with a writhing chilong, each of
217 the two sections with a centred rounded knob on the underside, the
smoothly polished stone of white-grey tone.
8.7cm (3 1/2in) long. (2).
£1,000 - 1,500
CNY9,000 - 14,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

十八世紀 螭龍紋玉帶扣

See a similar jade chilong belt hook, Qing dynasty, illustrated by
H.Hansford, Jade: Essence of hills and streams, The Von Oertzen
Collection of Chinese and Indian Jades, London, 1969, D60.

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A WHITE AND RUSSET JADE ‘DOUBLE CRANE AND PEACH’
GROUP
17th/18th century
The confronted birds delicately carved recumbent beside a gnarled
branch bearing two ripe peaches, one bird with the head turned on its
back and feet neatly tucked beneath the body, the other resting one
foot on the larger peach, their plumage picked out with finely-incised
feathers, the stone of white tone with cloudy and russet inclusions.
10cm (4in) long.
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£2,000 - 3,000
CNY18,000 - 27,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

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