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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
1682
A PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE ‘SCHOLAR AND MONKEY’
GROUP
19TH CENTURY
The group is carved in the round as a scholar stroking his beard
while being observed by both a monkey peering around the side of a
bamboo chair beside him and a bird perched on an openwork branch
of a prunus tree that grows from the rocks that form the reverse. The
semi-translucent stone is of pale greenish-white color.
3º in. (8.3 cm.) long
$6,000-8,000
清十九世紀 青白玉雕「虛位以侯」擺件
1683
A WHITE JADE FIGURE OF A LUOHAN
17TH-18TH CENTURY
The luohan has a short curly beard and curly hair bound by a fllet,
and is shown holding a jewel in his right hand while stroking the
head of a small lion with his left. The pale greenish-white stone has a
few tiny russet inclusions and pale russet color on the back.
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high
$6,000-8,000
明末/清十八世紀 白玉伏虎羅漢
1683
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