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A GROUP OF FOUR JADE PLAQUES A GROUP OF FIVE JADE CIRCULAR PLAQUES
Including two of thin circular section centered by a shou character, All thinly reticulated, including two depicting a vase enclosing
the first surrounded by a border of confronting dragons and carved three halberds and a stone chime, one of white gray hue and one
from stone of buff gray with patches of black, the second bordered more green gray; two depicting a xi character, one surrounded by
by repeating scroll work and carved from stone of gray-green hue; confronting archaistic beasts of whitish gray and one surrounded
a third of square section reticulated in geometric patterns and by moths in more yellowish gray; and one depicting a stone chime
centered by a reticulated wanzi medallion, of translucent green-gray between two archaistic characters perhaps reading jixiang, of green
covered in whitish inclusions; and a fourth of compressed bi-disk gray hue.
shape surrounded on the short ends by scrolling chilong motifs of 2 3/4in (7cm) diameter of first and largest
translucent whitish gray-green hue mottled in cloudy inclusions.
2 3/4in (7cm) length of fourth and longest US$1,800 - 2,500
US$1,800 - 2,500
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