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A gilt silver Manchu hairpin, bianfang A porcelain brush rest imitating Lingbi stone
19th Century Formed as a ridge of rocky outcroppings with deep ridges and hollows
The slender rectangular shaft worked in repousse with alternating stylized stippled with turquoise glaze highlights imitating lichen, inscribed on the
shou characters enclosed by a raised rope and key fret border under a base Guoji zhushi qing huan ‘a curio of Master Guo’.
spiral terminal mounted with three tourmaline glass cabuchons. 8 1/2in (21.6cm) long
12 3/8in (31.4 cm) long $6,000 - 8,000
$5,000 - 7,000
Provenance:
Provenance: Sotheby’s, New York, 14 September 2011, sale N08763, lot 180
acquired in China by an American missionary family before 1945 and
thence by descent to the present through a private family collection
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