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2083 PROPERTY FROM A NORTHERN CALIFORNIAN GENTLEMAN
TWO JADE FIGURAL CARVINGS
The first a pale greenish-white jade figure of Shakyamuni seated as an 2087
ascetic, copied after a Yuan period prototype, posed with his arms resting TWO SMALL JADE CARVINGS
on his upright left knee, the leg and right arm undercut; the second a Qing dynasty and later
charming study of the young Liu Hai holding a reticulated string with cash The first presenting a fu lion holding a ribboned ball with its front paws,
as he stands on the back of his tree-legged toad, the pale olive green and a playful cub crawling over its back, the details skillfully rendered
stone marked with prominent veins of pale to dark brown hue. with incised lines, the stone of gray and white coloration; the second
2 7/8 and 3 3/4in (7.3 and 9.5cm) high carved in high relief and openwork, depicting a water caltrops with
$1,000 - 1,500 leafy flowers and a bat, the white stone with a faint celadon tinge
exhibiting limited russet inclusions.
2084 1 3/16 x 1 1/8 x 7/8in (3.1 x 2.9 x 2.3cm) and 1 3/4 x 1 3/8 x 5/8in
A GROUP OF SIX SMALL JADE CARVINGS (4.5 x 3.5 x 1.5cm)
Including two pale greenish-white jade bangles carved in a twisted $1,500 - 2,500
rope pattern; the second a mottled green jadeite toroid bangle marked
with cloudy white inclusions and patches of dark leaf green hue; the PROPERTY FROM A LADY
fourth a pale greenish-white jade circular box of compressed globular
form raised on a neatly carved foot ring, the conforming convex cover 2088
showing pale russet and cloudy white patches; the fifth a reticulated A GROUP OF FOUR JADE AND HARDSTONE CARVINGS
greenish-white jade oval plaque reticulated on both sides as a vase Including two undecorated archer’s rings, one carved from
filled with flowers, with loose ring handles and inscribed on each side lavender jadeite mottled with off-white, pale apple-green inclusions
chang ming fu gui; the sixth, a mottled gray jade circular pendant and fissure lines, the second a pale yellowish green hardstone ring
reticulated with dragons and a bat along the exterior edge, the interior marked with darker color specks; two children’s jadeite bangles,
bi disc surrounding a movable quatrefoil roundel (losses to roundel); one of translucent pale green with varied shades, the second of
together with striated agate toggle carved and undercut as a quail predominant icy-white material.
holding in its beak a lotus stem. [7] 2 1/16in (5.2ccm) outer diameter and
3 3/8in (8.5cm) outside diameter of jadeite bangle 1 1/2in (3.8cm) inner diameter of the green jadeite bangle
$2,000 - 3,000 $1,500 - 2,500
2085 Provenance
TWO MOTTLED GREEN AND WHITE JADEITE BANGLES private collection formed over the past 50 years
The first of simple toroid form displaying tiny patches and veins of
brilliant leaf-green in a matrix filled with cloudy white inclusions and a PROPERTY FROM A WEST COAST COLLECTION
single patch of pale yellow hue; the second carved in high relief with
a dragon chasing a flaming pearl worked from bright green veins and 2089
tiny gray patches in the icy white matrix, the upright interior wall also A GROUP OF THREE LARGE JADE BI DISCS
line-incised with cloud patterns All three of standard thin section centered by a circular aperture, two
2 7/8 and 2 3/4in (7.3 and 7cm) exterior diameters unadorned and the third shallowly incised in archaistic zoomorphic
2 and 2 1/8in (5.2 and 5.4cm) interior diameters and repeating geometric motifs, all carved from stones of varied brown
$3,000 - 5,000 to dark green hue.
6 7/8 to 11in (17.5 to 28cm) diameter
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF FRANK G. JAMES (1886 - 1977) $1,000 - 1,500
AND GEORGIA G. JAMES (1889 - 1981), PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA
2086
TWO JADEITE SADDLE RINGS
Each carved with a curving oval ‘saddle’ using the most vivid green
veins of the matrix, the ring beneath the longer saddle size showing
a transparent gray-green matrix, the other showing a more brilliant
contrast of icy white and pale green in the ring section.
7/8th and 13/16in (2.4 and 2.2cm) high
$1,000 - 2,000
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