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□ 476 SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE

PROPERTY FROM A JAPANESE FAMILY COLLECTION
A PALE CELADON JADE FIGURE OF
GUANYIN
QING DYNASTY
depicted wearing long flowing robes and a headdress,
supporting a small boy in her arm, the celadon stone with faint
russet veining
11.3 cm, 4½ in.
HK$ 15,000-20,000
US$ 1,950-2,600

清 青白玉送子觀音

476

□ 477 SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE

PROPERTY FROM A JAPANESE FAMILY COLLECTION
A PALE CELADON JADE WATER DROPPER
AND A CELADON AND RUSSET JADE
FIGURE OF A MYTHICAL BEAST
QING DYNASTY
the water dropper in the form of a recumbent mythical beast,
the ferocious single-horned animal detailed with rounded eyes,
sharp teeth and a trifurcated tail; the other beast portrayed
with arched eyebrows and funnel-shaped ears, accentuated 477
with a curved spine terminating in a bifurcated tail swept
underneath its haunch
11.7 and 7 cm, 4⅝ and 2¾ in.

HK$ 20,000-30,000
US$ 2,600-3,850
清 青玉瑞獸式水滴 及 青玉瑞獸
□ 478 SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE

PROPERTY FROM A JAPANESE FAMILY COLLECTION
TWO JADE FIGURES OF A LION
MING AND QING DYNASTY

each carved in the round as a recumbent Buddhist lion holding
a brocade ball, the larger one worked from a white stone with
russet veining; the other portrayed with a cub on its back, the
cub and the ball skilfully worked from the white part of the
stone
5.2 and 6.9 cm, 2 and 2¾ in.
HK$ 15,000-20,000
US$ 1,950-2,600
478
明 白玉佛獅戲球 及 清 墨白玉巧雕太獅少獅

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