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PROPERTY OF A MASSACHUSETTS PRIVATE
COLLECTOR
A PAIR OF CELADON JADE
‘CATFISH’ BOWLS
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
each with shallow * ared sides with an everted
rim all supported on a low footring, carved to the
well with a pair of cat! sh in low relief, their tails
intertwined and their bodies following the outer
contours of the cavetto before turning in to face
one another, wisps of waterweeds completing
the circle around the well, the exterior carved
in relief with a continuous bough of blossoming
peony, the stone a pale celadon with faint white
inclusions (2)
Diameter 6 in., 15.2 cm
$ 6,000-8,000
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A WHITE JADE MUGHAL-STYLE
JARLET
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
the thin-walled globular body supported on a low
petal-form base surmounted by an upright neck
with a gently everted rim, to one side a small
openwork * oral handle inlaid at the center with
a small round ruby set in gold, the exterior ! nely
carved in low relief with eight large * owerheads
between a scalloped band of lotus blossoms
below and a similar band with pendent fuchsia
blooms above, the neck ribbed with upright
petals, the translucent stone with pale gray
mottling and opaque milk white striations
Length 4⅞ in., 12.4 cm
$ 8,000-12,000
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