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THE PROPERTY OF A CALIFORNIA COLLECTOR

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TWO WHITE JADE ‘BUTTERFLY’ PLAQUES
18TH CENTURY

Both are carved from pale greenish-white stone with minor cloudy inclusions:
one is reticulated and carved on each side as a butterfy pierced on the upper
wing section with a Buddhist wan character and with long antennae spreading
among scrolling, budding stems; the other is of oval form and crisply carved
on one side with two butterfies with elaborately layered overlapping wings
encircling a bunch of grapes and on the reverse with fnely serrated leaves
borne on a gnarled stem.

3¡ and 3¿ in. (8.6 and 8 cm.) wide (2)
$6,000-8,000

清十八世紀 白玉蝴蝶紋珮一對

VARIOUS PROPERTIES

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A GREENISH-WHITE JADE CARVING OF TWO CATS

QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
The group is carved as two reclining cats coiled around to face each other on
top of a woven cattail-leaf fan, their legs and tails carved in openwork between
them, and a dragonfy carved on the back of the larger cat.
2Ω in. (6.3 cm.) long

$5,000-7,000

1083 PROVENANCE

102 E & J Frankel Ltd., New York.
Roy (1931-1990) and Ruth (1934-2013) Nutt Collection, Seattle, Washington.

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 青白玉貓戯蜻蜓紋珮