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750 PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE
230 SOTHEBY’S COLLECTION

A PALE GREEN JADE ‘THREE
FRIENDS OF WINTER’ VASE
QING DYNASTY

naturalistically carved with a knotted pine tree
trunk next to two bamboo stalks and blossoming
prunus issuing from a rocky outcrop below and a
small lingzhi sprouting at the base, the bamboo
and pine hollowed, the stone of pale green color
with russet inclusions
Height 7 in., 19.3 cm

$ 6,000-8,000

750

A SMALL JADEITE ARCHAISTIC
VASE
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG
PERIOD

the cylindrical body rising from a stepped foot
to a waisted neck with a lipped rim, the body
carved in low relief with taotie above a band of
lotus petals, the neck with alternating upright and
pendent leaf lappets, the stone of a dark-green
color with russet inclusions
Height 5 in., 12.8 cm

PROVENANCE
Texas Private Collection.

$ 15,000-20,000