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A WHITE JADE ‘BAT AND DOUBLE GOURD’
PENDANT AND A WHITE JADE ‘SQUIRREL
AND GRAPE’ PENDANT
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)

The first pendant is carved with a bat in flight amidst
vines bearing double-gourds emerging from cliff
rocks, the stone is of a white tone with a slight greyish
tinge and concentrated areas of russet; the second
is carved with a squirrel perched on broad leaves
intertwined with a cluster of grapes, the stone is of an
even pale greenish-white tone.

Longer: 2√ in. (7.3 cm.) long (2)

HK$40,000-60,000 US$5,200-7,800

PROVENANCE

Bat pendant: sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 31 October
1991, lot 390 (one of four)
Squirrel pendant: sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 2 May
1991, lot 332 (one of three)

清 白玉福祿延綿珮、白玉松鼠葡萄珮

來源
福祿珮：香港蘇富比，1991年10月31日，拍品390
號（其中之一）
松鼠珮：香港蘇富比，1991年5月2日，拍品332號
（其中之一）

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A CARVED YELLOW JADE FIGURAL PENDANT
MING DYNASTY OR LATER

The stone is carved into a Han-style flattened slender figure with
a triangular-shaped face clad in a loose robe with wide sleeves.
The top of the hat and both sides of the lower body are carved with
circular apertures for suspension. The stone is of a pale greenish-
yellow tone with russet striations.

3º in. (8.4 cm.) high

HK$60,000-80,000 US$7,800-10,000

LITERATURE:

Palm Springs Desert Museum, Magic, Art, and Order, Jade in
Chinese Culture, Palm Springs, California, 8 February-29 April 1990,
Catalogue, p. 108

明或以後 黃玉雕高士像

著錄
棕櫚泉沙漠博物館，《Magic, Art and Order: Jade in Chinese

Culture》，棕櫚泉，加利福尼亞，1990年2月8日至4月29

日，108頁

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