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JADE AND HARDSTONE CARVINGS

PROPERTY FROM THE BITKIN FAMILY COLLECTION
6040 6044
A CARVED JADE BELT HOOK AND PLAQUE NOW MOUNTED A GROUP OF SEVEN JADE AND HARDSTONE MODELS OF
AS A MIRROR MONKEYS
Qing dynasty Including two recumbent monkeys each facing their standing infant;
The plaque of convex rectangular section with rounded corners a third crouching slightly as it carries an infant on its back; three
carved in relief to depict gnarled blooming branches surrounding examples of the animal carrying a branch on its back; the last and
additional fronds of lingzhi and pine; the belt hook of traditional shape smallest depicting a monkey straddling a branch of peaches (most
comprised of a dragon head hook peering at an undercut curling with tiny chips or losses).
chilong reversed by a circular nodule; the stone of both whorled in 2 1/8 to 1 1/8in (5.4 to 2.8cm) high
hues of whitish-gray; mounted to a metal-alloy mirror adorned in
polychrome enameled motifs of blooming prunus branches. $500 - 700
12in (30.4cm) total length
6045
$1,200 - 1,800 TWO JADE RETICULATED RECTANGULAR PENDANTS
The smaller plaque finished on both sides as four butterflies
Provenance surrounding a rectangular reserve carved with the character xi
purchased by an Armenian family before 1952 (happiness) on one side and a peony flower on the other; the larger
plaque finished on both sides as a lock plate with an undercut cross
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE GERMAN COLLECTOR, bar at the top joining two dragons that frame a rectangular reserve
ACQUIRED IN CHINA BEGINNING IN THE 1960S with the character shuangxi (double happiness) reversed by the
characters sanduo (three abundances); (both with tiny chips).
6041 2 3/4in (6.9cm) height of first plaque
3 7/16in (8.4cm) width of second plaque
TWO JADE BANGLES
Of toroid form, one with some cloudy inclusions in the matrix of an
otherwise fairly even and very pale hue. $1,000 - 1,500
2in (5cm) interior diameters
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF DR. GREGORY DAHLEN,
$1,000 - 1,500 JR.
6042 6046
TWO JADE BANGLES AN ARCHAISTIC JADE VASE
The white jade bangles with rounded surfaces and some cloudy Imitating a square-sectioned cong with a circular raised collar and
white inclusions in the matrix of fairly even and very pale white hue. deep conforming well, the square corners on the exterior incised
2 1/4in (5.7cm) inner diameter of each with circles and horizontal parallel lines above a circular foot pad of
irregular form, the walls retaining some natural depressions in the
matrix (possible polished chips).
$1,000 - 1,500 3 1/4in (8.3cm) high
6043 $1,000 - 1,500
A GROUP OF THREE CARVED JADE VEGETABLE PENDANTS
Late Qing/Republic period 6047
Each similarly rendered as irregularly ovoid elongated groups of
beans, eggplants and/or gourds within vine or leafy tendrils and A CARVED JADE FIGURE OF LIU HAI
suspended from a reticulated mesh of stems on one end; the first Qing dynasty
of whitish hue marked by dark inclusions, the second of buff white The irregularly ovoid pebble incised to depict the boyish immortal
color, the third of slight green tint. raising his toad to his forehead and grasping a coin at his protruding
3 1/4in (8.2cm) length of longest belly while kneeling atop a double-gourd; the stone of grayish white
color marked in notable areas of russet (chips).
2 1/2in (6.4cm) high
$1,000 - 1,500
$1,000 - 1,500

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