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PROPERTY FROM A MIDWESTERN COLLECTION
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A GREEN JADE ‘ROOSTER AND MILLET’ TOGGLE
Qing Dynasty, 18th century
Finely carved in the round depicting a bird with luxuriant feathers,
its legs tugged under, the leafy plant carved in high relief draped on
both sides of the beak, pierced from center back to between the feet
to allow stringing, the stone in translucent olive green with spots of
natural inclusion in dark brown.
1 7/8in (4.7cm) long
$4,000 - 6,000
清 綠玉雕公雞啣穗墜

For a Song-Ming precursor see Christie’s, Hong Kong, ‘The Gerald
Godfrey Private Collection of Fine Chinese Jades’, 30 October 1995,
lot 849.

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