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744 A GRAYISH-WHITE JADE HAIR ORNAMENT
17TH / 18TH CENTURY
A PALE CELADON JADE OPENWORK
PLAQUE the pebble well-hollowed, the top ridged in ve rounded ribs,
YUAN DYNASTY enframed beneath by shaped panels comprised of chilong
carved in low relief, the front with a cusped reserve enclosing
nely carved in two layers, the outer layer centered on a a frontal dragon in the central panel anked by a pair to either
blossoming lotus surrounded by pod-capped stems and long side and smaller ones coiled along the top outer ridge, the
leaves gently folding in all directions as two birds enter from reverse with a larger and small chilong within a single panel, a
above and below, the under layer of pierced rectangular form small aperture to either side for a pin to secure the tting to
carved with alternating C-scrolls and circles the hair, the stone with pale gray inclusions towards the base
Length 3¼ in., 8.4 cm Length 3 in., 7.8 cm
There is a nearly identical example to the present jade in the
PROVENANCE British Museum illustrated in Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade
Ashkenazie & Co., San Francisco, 1970. from the Neolithic to the Qing, British Museum, London, 1995,
cat. no. 25:14.
$ 6,000-8,000 $ 6,000-8,000

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A PALE CELADON JADE RETICULATED
‘FLORAL’ PLAQUE
17TH / 18TH CENTURY

of rectangular form, intricately pierced and carved with a
central lotus ower amid dense composite oral sprays, all
issuing from a rockwork ground, the softly polished stone of an
even color, mounted in a reticulated wood frame
Width 4⅛ in., 10.6 cm
$ 6,000-8,000

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