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A CELADON JADE TREE-TRUNK RAFT CARRYING IMMORTALS
The raft sprouting a leafy branch at one end behind a seated female
immortal steering the craft with a lingzhi-branch oar, then a basket of
auspicious fruit and another female immortal holding a peach while
a young boy holds a lingzhi fungus branch at the opposite end, the
underside carved with swirling waves showing some the russet skin
and natural surfaces fissures in the pale gray-green stone.
7 3/4in (19.7cm) long
$1,000 - 1,500
Provenance: 1082
Dr. Dean Edell

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A GROUP OF THREE JADE PLAQUES
The first of tall thinly sectioned rectangular shape, carved in shallow
relief archaistic dragons framing a tall lady amid pines to verso and a
stylized eight-character inscription to recto, the stone of greenish gray
color; the second a thickly sectioned disk carved in raised relief boss
and scroll patterns suspended from an undercut chilong bestriding the
edge, the stone of fairly uniform white color; the third an ovoid plaque
reticulated in a stylized archaistic mesh of lion dogs and scroll work,
the stone of grayish white color.
4in (10cm) height of first and tallest (3).
$1,800 - 2,500
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TWO ARCHAISTIC ‘CHICKEN BONE’ JADE BI DISCS
The thin sections encircled by three protruding points and irregular
exterior edges surrounding more regularly circular interior apertures,
the stone of calcified creamy brown color streaked by notable areas of
inclusions.
5 1/4 (13.3cm) width of larger
$2,000 - 3,000

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A LARGE ROCK CRYSTAL LIDDED VASE
The substantial vessel of flattened baluster form set within an intricate
undercut profusion of phoenix and other mythical beasts amid floral
rockery, the semi-translucent stone displaying complex matrices.
18 1/2in (47cm) high
$2,000 - 3,000 1083
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