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THREE ARCHAISTIC JADE ANIMAL CARVINGS
Late Qing Dynasty
The horse laying on its side gnawing at the left hind foot, the cream-
colored stone stained black in areas; the mythical beast with long
mane and forked tail, drilled on the back for stringing, the gray stone
stained black in areas; the fu dog with large droopy eyes crouching
with its ears back, drilled under the chin for stringing, the brown stone
mottled in various tones. (3)
horse: 2in (5.1cm) long;
beast: 1 5/8in (4.1cm) long;
dog: 1 5/8in (4.1cm) long

$1,000 - 1,500

清末 仿古玉飾 馬 瑞獸 犬 共三件
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價
Provenance:
Yamanaka & Company, New York
Gift of Samuel T. Peters, 1913
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1913-present
來源：
紐約山中商會
Samuel T. Peters 1913 年贈
大都會藝術博物館，1913 年迄今
The horse gnawing at the left hind foot compares closely to the
celadon jade horse in the Brundage Collection, illustrated by Knight, Li
and Tse Bartholomew, Chinese Jades: Ming Dynasty to Early Twentieth
Century, From the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco,
173 2007, p. 92, no. 77, attributed to early 20th century and noted by the
author: “The diagonal tension between the head and the rear leg in this
piece, is a later innovation in design.”

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SIX ARCHAISTIC JADE AND HARDSTONE ORNAMENTS
Late Qing Dynasty
The rectangular jade bead of flattened form, decorated with five tiers of
striped panels and ruyi scrolls, inscribed with two archaistic characters,
the green stone stained black in areas; the thick bi disc with an off-
centered perforation, the stone turned cream and brown in areas;
the oval plaque carved with a boy at the center register, encircled
with symbols of the Eight Trigrams on the flat border, the reverse
carved with twelve archaic style characters of di zhi, the celadon
stone mottled russet brown; the bi disc surmounted by a chi dragon
holding a lingzhi stalk in the mouth, the reverse carved with neatly lined
bosses, the white jade with degraded surface; the short cong with
circular rims and square corners, the olive-green stone stained black in
areas; the large jade tube with flaring rim decorated with two registers
of square corners and a raised band incised with scrolling ruyi pattern
within line borders, the olive-green stone mottled russet-brown. (6)
Rectangular bead: 1 7/8in (4.8cm) long;
Bi disc: 1 3/4in 4.5cm long;
Oval plaque: 2 9/16in (6.5cm) long;
Chi dragon bi disc: 2 1/16in (5.3cm) diam;
Short cong: 1 1/2in (3.8cm) wide;
Large tube: 6 1/16in (5.4cm) high

$2,500 - 3,000
清末 仿古玉石飾 勒子 壁 琮 管 共六件

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