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A WHITE AND GREY JADE ‘MANDARIN
DUCKS’ GROUP
QING DYNASTY
skilfully worked in the form of a mandarin duck with its young,
the birds finely detailed with plumage picked out with incisions
and rendered grasping in their beaks a long leafy lotus steam,
the translucent white stone with mottled grey and brown
markings
4.7 cm, 1⅞ in.
HK$ 26,000-30,000
US$ 3,350-3,850

清 灰斑白玉雕銜蓮鴛鴦

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A CELADON JADE ‘GEESE’ GROUP
QING DYNASTY
of pebble form, skilfully worked with the two birds grasping
in their beaks a long leafy millet spray, their plumage finely
detailed, all atop a base modelled as swirling waves, the pale
celadon-white stone with greyish brown markings
6.2 cm, 2⅜ in.
HK$ 30,000-40,000
US$ 3,850-5,200

清 玉雕寶鵝獻瑞

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