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TWO CARVED ARCHAISTIC ‘DRAGON’ PENDANTS
Late Qing Dynasty
The dragon pendant depicted low relief and incised lines, the mouth
perforated for stringing, the stone mottled beige and brown in areas;
the ‘fish-dragon’ with square snout and a pair of horns behind the ears,
turning back to face its spreading wings, the scaled body tapered to a
small fish tail, the mouth and tip of the wing perforated for stringing. (2)
Dragon: 5 1/8in (13cm) wide;
Fish-dragon: 4in (10.2cm) wide
$1,500 - 2,500
清末 仿古玉龍珮兩件
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價
Provenance:
Gift of Samuel T. Peters, 1916
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1916-present
來源：
Samuel T. Peters 1916 年贈
大都會藝術博物館，1916 年迄今

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SEVEN ARCHAISTIC JADE AND HARDSTONE ORNAMENTS
Qing Dynasty
The mythical bird in a sitting pose, carved on both sides in shallow relief
and incised lines, the pale stone stained russet brown in areas; the huang
pendant carved with two dragon heads in high relief, the reverse with
neatly lined bosses, drilled at one corner for stringing, the stone degraded
and with deep russet inclusions; the bottle of flattened rectangular form
decorated with two pairs of dragon heads at each shoulder, the short
neck with a flat rim above an incised mask pattern, the body decorated 171
with a band of four archaistic characters on either side, the lower register
detailed with wave and island patterns, the stone mottled celadon and
cream; the flattened oblong fitting with flat sides, perforated with three
holes for attachment, the gray stone mottled and stained black in areas;
the bu pendant following the bronze currency prototype, decorated with
two characters in seal script, perforated on the top end for stringing; the
cong decorated with nine tiers of striped panels and a chi dragon on the
side, the stone lightly stained brown; the tortoise carapace carved with
hexagonal grids and keyfret border, drilled through the center for stringing,
the celadon stone stained black and brown in areas. (7)
bird: 3 3/8in (8.6cm) wide;
huang: 4in (10.1cm) wide;
bottle: 2 3/8in (6cm) high;
fitting: 2 5/8in (6.6cm) wide;
bu: 1 7/8in (4.8cm) long;
cong: 1 3/4in (4.5cm) long;
tortoise carapace: 1 3/4in (4.5cm) long
$5,000 - 8,000

清末 仿古玉石擺飾 鳥 璜 瓶 布幣 琮 龜殼 共七件
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價
Provenance:
Gift of Samuel T. Peters, 1916
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1916-present
來源：
Samuel T. Peters 1916 年贈
大都會藝術博物館，1916 年迄今

The characters on the bottle may be read as: 富貴吉祥 延年益壽
The small jade cong with chi dragon on the side in the present lot
compares closely to the jade cong in the collection of the Palace Museum,
Taipei, illustrated on the museum’s website as 故玉004607N, attributed to
Qing dynasty.
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