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A LARGE PALE GREEN AND RUSSET
JADE BITTER MELON CARVING
The fruit suspended from a gnarled, leafy
branch, issuing long, curled leafy tendrils,
beside a smaller fruit, some areas of faint
russet mottling.
12cm (4.3/4in) long.

£1,500 - 2,000
CNY13,000 - 17,000 HK$15,000 - 20,000

391

392 Y 392
A GREY AND WHITE JADE CARVING OF
FOREIGNERS 393
Skilfully carved along the inclusion as two A WHITE AND RUSSET JADE FIGURE OF
curly-haired, bearded foreigners holding each LIU HAI
other’s arms and balancing on one foot, The Daoist deity modelled peacefully asleep,
mounted to a wood cover. flanked with his three-legged toad holding a
The jade: 3.5cm (1 3/8in) high string of cash, the stone of an opaque creamy
£2,500 - 3,000 white hue with strongly coloured russet
CNY22,000 - 26,000 HK$24,000 - 29,000 patches. 6.5cm (2 1/2in) high
£1,000 - 1,500
393 CNY8,700 - 13,000 HK$9,800 - 15,000

152 | BONHAMS For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.