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Property from a Sonoma County collection

7050
Two white jade pendants
Qing dynasty
The first of rectangular silhouette, thinly sectioned and finished on both
sides as two dragons facing the suspension shank rising from the top
of a bell with projecting flanges and a taotie mask, the translucent
matrix of fairly even and pale greenish-white hue; the second a circular
pendant reticulated as a bird tethered with loops of ribbon to a leafy
twig issuing from the thicker bamboo branch that forms the frame
beneath a flowering plum twig cut as the suspension loop, the matrix
of even off-white hue.
3 3/4 and 2 3/4in (9 and 7cm) long
$3,000 - 5,000

Property from a Colorado private collection

7051 7051

A celadon jade carving of a vase and cover and
‘prunus trunk’ vase
19th century
The single stone carved as a baluster vase incised with curling scrolls

on the body, with reticulated handles and a stepped cover with incised

scrolls and a rope-like finial, supported on one side by rockwork and

a leafy bamboo shaft, and on the other side another vase formed as a

gnarled prunus trunk beside Lake Tai rockwork with smaller branches

bearing flowers and buds extending to both sides.

7 1/4in (8.4cm) wide

$5,000 - 7,000

Provenance
acquired from Spink & Sons, Ltd, London, by repute

7052 7052
A carved greenish-white jade boulder
Qing dynasty
Of horizontal profile, the front carved in relief as a craggy mountain setting
for a bearded sage holding a ruyi scepter and a young boy carrying a
lingzhi branch separated by a pine tree rising from rock-work; the reverse
rendered as simple rock surfaces that retain some of the boulder’s natural
russet skin, also showing veins of mottled gray to off-white hue.
3 x 4 5/8 x 1 3/4in (7.7 x 11.7 x 4.5cm)
$5,000 - 7,000

Provenance
acquired from Spink & Sons, Ltd, London, by repute, and bearing
paper label

Property from the Meeker collection

7053
A ‘chicken bone’ jade lotus-form brush washer
Qing dynasty
Hollowed as two conjoined lotus pods, one open and the other with
a circle of lotus seeds, beside spreading leaves and lotus buds, all
issuing from intertwined stems tied with a ribbon.
5 5/8in (14.3cm) long
$5,000 - 7,000

Provenance 7053
By repute, Mr. Y. K. Shrebowski, 104 High Street, Norton-on-tees,
County Durham,
to Spink and Son, on 27 December 1962
from Spink and Son, Ltd, 5, 6, 7, King Street St. James’s, London S.
W. 1 to the current owner on 15 May 1964

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