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TWO CARVED JADE FIGURES OF RECUMBENT BEASTS
A GROUP OF THREE SMALL JADE CARVINGS Late Qing/Republic period
The first a bi disk shallowly incised in archaistic and repeating The first a qilin or similar single-horned creature depicted nipping
scroll patterns to either side, the stone of gradated hues of olive at his tail ending in three tufts of individually incised strands, carved
and black; the second a thin rectangle shallowly incised in lion and from stone of gray-green hue marked by prominent patches of black;
beast patterns and reversed by a concave indentation, possibly for the second a figural group of a mother lion nuzzling her cub, the
mounting upon a larger object, the stone of gray hue mottled with stone of gray green color.
whitish inclusions and striated in notable veins of russet; the third a 2 1/4in (5.7cm) long
small jadeite pendant of ovoid shape surmounted by an undercut bat
or chilong, predominantly of grayish lavender hue but marked by a US$1,500 - 2,500
notable vein of apple green.
2 1/2in (6.4cm) diameter of first and largest
US$1,200 - 1,800
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