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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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