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PROPERTY FROM A CALIFORNIA COLLECTOR PROPERTY FROM ANOTHER OWNER
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AN ARCHAISTIC JADE SEGMENTED BI DISC A SPINACH JADE COVERED BOX IN THE SHAPE OF AN
Based on Warring States prototypes and comprising three arching ARCHAIC BRONZE FANG YI
sections of identical size and decoration, each centered with an animal Of rectangular section, hollowed out on the interior and carved in
mask set amid spiral scrolls, the mask formed from a cross-hatched relief on the exterior with plaques of facing dragons above and below
vertical rib separating two circular eyes below horizontally curving large taotie masks divided by vertical flanges at the center of each
brows with incised lines below a crest incised with scales, the tips to side and protruding at each corner, the base deeply recessed and
each segment finished with notches and drill holes, the drill holes now the roof-shaped cover decorated en suite below a faceted knob finial
tied together with string. (chips to side flanges).
5 1/2in (14cm) diameter 10 3/8in (26.5cm) height of jade
4 3/4in (12cm) maximum width of each segment 11 1/2in (29cm) height including wood stand
$5,000 - 8,000 $3,000 - 4,000
PROPERTY FROM THE XANADU GALLERY, SAN FRANCISCO, This spinach jade container is based on bronze ceremonial covered
CALIFORNIA wine vessels cast during the late Shang period: see, for example, the
fang yi in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco published in René-
2128 Yvon Lefebvre d’Argencé, Bronze Vessels of Ancient China in the
A ROCK CRYSTAL VASE Avery Brundage Collection, 1977, pp. 50-51.
Surmounted by a fitted lid and carved of flattened baluster section
adorned by a raised relief chilong encircling the shoulder and PROPERTY FROM A PROMINENT SAN FRANCISCO COLLECTOR
reversed by undercut sprigs of lingzhi fungi supporting and blooming
from the foot rim. 2132
5 1/4in (13.3cm) high A GROUP OF THREE JADE PLAQUES AND TWO
$1,500 - 2,000 FINGERNAIL GUARDS
The jade, 19th century
PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK COLLECTOR The first two of ovoid form incised in shallow raised relief, one
depicting Magu bringing peaches in a curving boat beneath a pine
2129 tree and one depicting two wizened elders within a rocky setting, both
A CARVED LAPIS MOUNTAIN carved from stone of mottled whitish hue and mounted within silvered
Of irregular triangular profile, carved on both sides to depict metal and polychrome enamel filigree frames supporting modern
numerous levels of pavilions and temples amid craggy pine- mirrors on the reverse; the third an ovoid jadeite plaque of ‘moss and
covered peaks, the top of one side bearing the traces of a gilt- snow’ hues shallowly carved to depict two facing dragons surrounding
inscribed imperial ode to Qingluan Peak, the stone of deep blue a shou medallion mounted within a metal belt buckle; the two
hue whorled in veins of cloudy inclusions. fingernail guards each formed of metal filigree supporting semiprecious
7 7/8in (20cm) high stone cabochons, one with polychrome enameled highlights.
$1,500 - 2,500 4 3/8in (11.2cm) length of longer plaque
$1,200 - 1,800
PROPERTY FROM THE EMMANUEL GRAN FAMILY
COLLECTION 2133
A CARVED JADE BELT BUCKLE AND A COLLECTION OF
2130 JADEITE BUTTONS
A GROUP OF EIGHT JADE AND HARDSTONE CARVINGS Late Qing dynasty
18th century and later The buckle of thinly sectioned ovoid shape formed of two linked
The jades including a deeply undercut toggle in the form of a bird halves reticulated to depict the Hehe twins, carved from stone of
and lotus resting on a scallop shell; a miniature duck with lotus stem whitish gray hue; the small jadeite of varied hues of whorled sea-foam
swimming on a larger lotus leaf; a small brush bath in the shape of a and apple green marked in veins of white inclusions, cut in small thin
lotus leaf; a thinly sectioned oval pendant carved to both sides as two shards finished in varied figural, animal, and floral shapes. [lot]
phoenix birds separated by a ribbon-tied flower head; a pendant in the 2 3/4in (7cm) long
form of a hollowed bell of trapezoidal form; a square-sectioned rock $1,000 - 1,500
crystal seal; a reticulated brown hardstone finial in the form of egrets
and water plants; and a malachite frog toggle with inlaid eyes. Due to the large number of items in this lot, condition reports and
1 3/4in (4.5cm) height of bell photographs of individual items will not be available.
1 7/8in (4.9cm) width of lotus leaf
$1,200 - 1,800
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