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PROPERTY FROM THE MORGAN FOUNDATION COLLECTION A PALE CELADON JADE RUYI SCEPTER
A WHITE AND GRAY JADE ‘CAT’ GROUP QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY the arched shaft supporting a large ruyi-form head at one
end and smaller panels at the center and at the opposite
carved as a mother and kitten, the recumbent mother carved end, collectively carved with the Eight Immortals in
from the white portion of stone with tail curled next to the landscapes filled with pine trees and craggy rocks, the well-
body, the kitten carved from the gray section of the stone, polished stone an even pale celadon color with some icy
craning its neck, both reaching for the dragonfly between white inclusions
them, their tucked paws and legs detailed at the underside Length 17 in., 43 cm
Width 1⅞ in., 4.7 cm
PROVENANCE
PROVENANCE
Jadestone Gallery, Portland, 2010. European Private Collection.
Christie’s London, 9th November 2010, lot 109.
$ 6,000-8,000
$ 10,000-15,000
清十八世紀 灰白玉巧雕貓戲蜻蜓把件
清十九世紀 青白玉雕八仙圖如意
來源：
Jadestone Gallery，波特蘭，2010年 來源：
歐洲私人收藏
倫敦佳士得2010年11月9日，編號109

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PROPERTY FROM A CANADIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
A YELLOW AND RUSSET JADE RUYI SCEPTER
QING DYNASTY
naturalistically carved with a lingzhi-form head issuing two
smaller attendant lingzhi heads, the shaft modeled in the
form of a gnarled stem encircled by leafy branches and
smaller lingzhi heads, the yellow stone gradating to russet
with dark inclusions from the ruyi head to the shaft
Length 12½ in., 31.8 cm
PROVENANCE
Collection of Charlotte and George McDonald Goldsack,
acquired circa the 1930s, and thence by descent.
Compare an agate and a celadon jade ruyi scepter, both
attributed to the mid-Qing dynasty and in the collection
of the Palace Museum, Beijing, published in Yang Boda,
Zhongguo yu qi quan ji / The Complete Compilation of
Chinese Jades, Shijiazhuang, 2005, pls 178 and 179. A closely
related celadon jade example sold at Christie’s Hong Kong,
28th November 2017, lot 2926. See also a yellow jade ruyi
scepter of similar design but with lotus decoration on the
shaft, sold at Christie’s New York, 18th March 2008, lot 465.
⊖ $ 10,000-15,000

清 黃玉雕靈芝如意
來源：
Charlotte 及 George McDonald Goldsack 伉儷收藏，得
216 於約1930年代，此後家族傳承

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