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PROPERTY OF A NORTH AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTOR 玉寶：清乾隆
AN IMPERIAL GREEN JADE ‘DRAGON’ 印文：清光緒 1881年
POSTHUMOUS SEAL FOR THE EMPRESS 青玉孝貞顯皇后玉寶
DOWAGER CI’AN
THE CARVING: QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG 印文：
PERIOD 孝貞慈安裕慶和敬儀天祚聖顯皇后之寶
THE SEAL FACE: QING DYNASTY, GUANGXU
PERIOD, 1881 來源
Henry Joseph (1861-1912) 及 Mary Virginia Ives
the seal face carved with a seventeen-character inscription
reading Xiaozhen Ci’an yuqing hejing yitian zuosheng xian (1861-1929) Crocker 伉儷收藏，此後家族傳承
huanghou zhi bao (The Treasure of Express Xiaozhenxian
[her posthumous title bestowed by the Guangxu Emperor]),
followed by a Manchurian inscription
Height 4½ in., 11.3 cm; seal face 5 in. by 5 in., 12.8 cm by
12.8 cm
PROVENANCE
Collection of Henry Joseph (1861-1912) and Mary Virginia
Ives (1861-1929) Crocker, and thence by descent.
$ 150,000-200,000
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