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ANOTHER PROPERTY
                                                                               1755
                                                                               A PALE GREYISH-WHITE JADE WASHER
                                                                               18TH-19TH CENTURY
                                                                               The washer is in the form of a boy holding a ball,
                                                                               seated in the center of a quatrefoil basin, fanked
                                                                               by a dragon at one end and a phoenix at the other.
                                                                               The semi-translucent stone is of pale greyish-
                                                                               white color.
                                                                               5æ in. (14.6 cm.) wide

                                                                               $5,000-7,000
                                                                               清十八/十九世紀   青白玉龍鳳呈祥筆洗






                                                                               PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK ESTATE
                                                                               1756
                                                                               A PALE GREYISH-GREEN JADE CARVING
                                                                               OF THREE SCHOLARS
                                                                               19TH CENTURY
                                                                               The carving depicts two scholars opening a scroll,
                                                                               while a third scholar stands in the middle to view it,
                                                                               his right hand holding a staf and left hand holding
                                                                               the right arm of the second scholar. The scroll is
                                                                               incised with a Taiji symbol. The semi-translucent
                                                                               stone of pale greyish-green color has some opaque
                                          1755                                 mottling.
                                                                               4 in. (10.2 cm.) wide

                                                                               $8,000-12,000
                                                                               清十九世紀   青白玉雕仙人閱圖擺件






                                                                               VARIOUS PROPERTIES
                                                                               1757
                                                                               A PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE
                                                                               PENDANT PLAQUE
                                                                               18TH-19TH CENTURY
                                                                               The plaque is carved on one side in low relief with
                                                                               a bat in fight beside a fruiting peach branch above
                                                                               a rock rising from wind-tossed waves, and on the
                                                                               reverse with a four-character seal, shoushan fuhai
                                                                               (mountain of longevity, ocean of fortune), all below
                                                                               clouds at the top. The semi-translucent stone is of
                                                                               an even pale greenish-white color.
                                                                               2Ω in. (6.2 cm.) high
                                                                               $5,000-7,000

                                                                               PROVENANCE
                                                                               Lizzadro Collection, Chicago, Illinois, acquired
                                                                               prior to 1960.
                                                                               Christie’s New York, 20 March 2014, lot 2394.

                                                                               清十八/十九世紀   青白玉「壽山福海」牌
                                          1756
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