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四 43. Pendant carved with a single-horned chilong dragon and bat on a large section of lingzhi fungus with stippled edges, the stone pure white.
十 2 inches, 5.1 cm long.
三 Qianlong, 1736-1795.
靈 • From the collection of Dr John A. Campbell, Akron, Ohio. A member of the Cleveland Art Museum, he enjoyed a long
芝 friendship with Mr Ho and Sherman Lee. He taught an adult-education class on Japanese and Chinese art at Akron University
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龍 and was on the Advisory Board of the College of Fine and Professional Arts at Kent State University.
墜 • A similarly shaped double lingzhi pendant, from the collection of Major-General Orde Charles Wingate, DSO, is illustrated
by Marchant in their 85th anniversary exhibition of Chinese Jades from Tang to Qing, 2010, no. 69, p. 95, and another from the
白 collection of Colonel M. M. Monroe was included by Marchant in their 75th anniversary exhibition, Post-Archaic Chinese Jades
玉 from Private Collections, 2000, no. 50, p. 68.
• The fungus of longevity, lingzhi, and bat, fu, form the rebus fuzhi xinling, ‘May your mind be clear when blessings arrive’. When
乾 depicted with a dragon it is a wish for long life to the emperor.
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