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           A PALE GREEN AND RUSSET JADE                                       A PALE GREEN JADE ‘DOUBLE CRANE
                                             A PALE GREEN AND RUSSET JADE
           ‘EAGLE AND BIRD’ GROUP            CARVING OF A PHOENIX AND YOUNG   AND PEACH’ BRUSHREST
           Song/Yuan Dynasty                 Ming Dynasty                     18th century
           Smoothly carved with the fierce eagle   Smoothly carved as a recumbent phoenix and   The birds carved recumbent with heads
           attaching itself with its talons onto the   its chick, detailed with feathered wings and   turned back facing towards each other, with
           larger bird’s rounded head, the feathers and   elaborate plumage, their heads gently swayed   legs tucked underneath the rounded bodies,
           plumage meticulously incised, the stone of   to the reverse and holding a lotus branch   the wings meticulously detailed with plumage,
           mottled brown and pale green tone.    together, the stone is of a green and russet   the larger bird grasping in the beak a leafy
           5.5cm (2 1/4in) long.             tone, wood stand.                branch of fruiting peach, the translucent pale
                                             7.5cm (2 7/8in) wide (2).        green stone with some milky-white inclusions,
           £4,000 - 6,000                                                     with wood stand.
           CNY35,000 - 53,000                £4,000 - 6,000                   12.5cm (4 7/8in) long. (2).
                                             CNY35,000 - 53,000
           宋/元 青白玉帶皮海東青啄雁飾                                                    £8,000 - 12,000
                                             明 青白玉帶皮子母鳳凰                      CNY70,000 - 110,000
           Provenance: S.Marchant & Son Ltd., London,
           2005, no.49                       Provenance: S.Marchant & Son Ltd., London,   十八世紀 青白玉雕雙鶴銜桃枝筆架
           A distinguished English private collection   Chinese jade from Han-Qing, London, 2005,
                                             no.61                            Provenance: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter
           來源:2005年購於倫敦S.Marchant & Son      A distinguished English private collection   Exhibition, London, 2008, no.83
           Ltd.,編號49                                                          A distinguished English private collection
           英國顯貴私人收藏                          來源:2005年,購於倫敦S.Marchant & Son
                                             Ltd.,「中國玉器:由漢至清」,編號61            來源:2008年購於倫敦Roger Keverne Ltd.,
           A similar jade carving of an eagle attacking   英國顯貴私人收藏            「冬季展覽」,編號83
           a bird in the Qing Court Collection, Liao or                       英國顯貴私人收藏
           Jin dynasty, is illustrated in The Complete
           Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum:
           Jadeware II, Beijing, p.56, no.47.


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