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A GROUP OF SIX HARDSTONE AND BAITONG CUPS A CORAL CARVING OF THE EIGHT IMMORTALS
Carved from likely a type of serpentine and mounted on footed lotus Of Chinese or Japanese manufacture, the forked branch carved to
form stands and covered by domical lids with coral colored glass depict five of the figures observing Li Tieguai and Lu Dongbin’s game
finials (losses); together with a small dagger enclosed within an incised of chess beside a boy attendant meant to be Lan Caihe, all within a
bone sheathe mounted upon a carved nephrite hilt. writhing sinuous dragon emerging from churning fish-filled waves.
6 1/4in (16cm) height of cups inclusive of lids; 11in (28cm) length of coral exclusive of stand
13 3/4in (35cm) length of dagger
US$2,000 - 3,000
US$1,000 - 1,500
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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION A CARVED CORAL FIGURE OF SHOULAO
Of Chinese or Japanese manufacture, the wizened figure with typical
9261 protruding cranium holding a peach in his right hand and a staff
A GILT DECORATED SERPENTINE BOWL, COVER AND STAND suspending a double gourd and a scroll in his left surrounded by a
QIANLONG MARK rocky grove of pine branches and cranes (minor losses).
Each thinly sectioned and painted in gilt enamel: the bowl with flared 9 3/4in (24.7cm) high
rim and deep well raised on a square-cut foot ring, painted with a
composite lotus flower and leaf scroll band on the exterior walls, US$2,000 - 3,000
the recessed base bearing a four-character mark possibly reading
Qianlong yu jian in red enamel; the stand painted with a similar lotus 9266
flower and leaf scroll band on the inside edge of the rim, the shallow A STONE TABLE SCREEN
well reversed by a concave base within the foot pad; the cover Possibly a variety of Songhua, the stone of striated green hue and
painted with three dragons striding amid leafy scrolls and a floriform carved in a horizontal rectangular shape, covered to one side in
roundel (wear to gilt, assembled). colored soapstone overlay to depict birds and flowers, supported by a
4 1/8in (10.5cm) diameter of bowl likely associated wood and bone stand.
7 7/8in (20cm) height of screen exclusive of stand
US$1,500 - 2,000
US$1,500 - 2,500
PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS

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A GROUP OF FIVE JADE AND HARDSTONE CARVINGS
The first an oval greenish-white jade cup carved as a lotus leaf rising
amid the deeply undercut stems of lotus flowers and leaves, with
attached reticulated wood display stand; the second a greenish-white
jade rectangular jade belt buckle, the russet-stained face carved in
high relief as a pair of dragons facing a flaming pearl, the reverse
showing remains of a button and hook that are no longer preserved;
the third a russet-stained archaistic jade rhyton cup of zoomorphic
shape with altered surfaces; the fourth a moss agate shallow bowl
shaped as a lotus leaf supporting a frog and snail as well as another
crustacean carved from an opaque straw colored vein in the matrix
(chipped); the fifth a recumbent ox with transverse drill hole through
the snout carved from a hematite pebble (deep hairline fissures).
5 1/2in (14cm) length of jade lotus leaf cup

US$1,500 - 2,000

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A CARVED CORAL FIGURE OF GUANYIN
Of Chinese or Japanese manufacture, the tallest fork of the branch
worked to depict the bodhisattva below a parrot suspending mala
beads in front of the ovoid nimbus reversing her high chignon,
surrounded by the other forks rendered as her attendants Xiao
Longnu and Shancai Tongzi, all supported by a writhing sinuous
dragon.
15 1/2in (39.5cm) length of coral
11 1/2in (29.2cm) height of coral

US$2,000 - 3,000

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