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A GROUP OF JADE CARVINGS A GROUP OF PALE JADE PLAQUES AND A SEAL
17th to 19th century Comprising: a pendant plaque carved with confronting archaistic
Comprising: a mottled grey and cream jade carving of a goose and dragons to the upper border; a small pendant plaque carved with a
lotus leaf; a green jade plaque carved as an arhat holding a crown; a tiger beneath a dragon emerging from clouds, the reverse inscribed; a
pale green jade archaistic plectrum with a chilong; an archaistic ring reticulated circular plaque carved with a coiled dragon entwined with
carved with a chilong and mounted as a brooch; a white jade lingzhi foliage; and a small seal surmounted by a recumbent tiger.
fungus pendant group. The largest: 7.4cm (2 7/8in) high (5). The largest plaque 6.4cm (2.1/2in) long. (4).

£2,000 - 3,000 £2,000 - 3,000
CNY17,000 - 26,000 HK$20,000 - 29,000 CNY17,000 - 26,000 HK$20,000 - 29,000

Provenance
Collected in Hong Kong between 1952-1983, two jades possibly gifted
from Colonel Valentine Burkhardt, and thence by descent.

Literature
The green jade chilong archaistic pendant and the mottled goose
group are illustrated in V.R. Burkhardt, Chinese Creeds and Customs:
Volume II, Hong Kong 1972, fig. 4 & 7.

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