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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE HAWAIIAN ANOTHER PROPERTY
2416 COLLECTION
A SMALL WHITE JADE LOTUS POD 2417 2418
CARVING A WHITE JADE CARVING OF TWO BADGERS A GREENISH-WHITE JADE CARVING OF
18TH-19TH CENTURY 18TH-19TH CENTURY TWO CATS
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
The lotus pod is well carved around the sides The group is carved in openwork as two
with a small lotus fower rising from a lotus huan (badgers) facing each other as they play, The group is carved as two reclining cats
leaf, and grasses, the stems all tied on the with the tail of one wrapped around a lingzhi coiled around to face each other on top of
underside with a ribbon, its end futtering stem. The stone is an even white color. a woven cattail-leaf fan, their legs and tails
up one side where a bird with spread wings 1æ in. (4.5 cm.) long carved in openwork between them, and a
is perched. There are a few areas of very pale dragonfy carved on the back of the larger
russet color in the white stone. $7,000-9,000 cat.
2 in. (5 cm.) wide 2Ω in. (6.3 cm.) long
PROVENANCE:
$6,000-8,000 $8,000-12,000
Acquired in Hawaii in the 1960s, and thence
PROVENANCE: by descent within the family. PROVENANCE:
Acquired between 1960-early 1980s, and 清十八/十九世紀 Roy (1931-1990) and Ruth (1934-2013)
thence by descent within the family. 白玉鏤雕「雙歡」墜 Nutt Collection, Seattle, Washington.
E & J Frankel Ltd., New York.
清十八/十九世紀 白玉連生貴子把件
Compare the white jade carving of cats and a
dragonfy, formerly in the Tsui Museum of Art,
sold at Christie’s New York, 15 September 2011,
lot 1427.
清 青白玉雙貓把件
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