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7054 Property from Various Owners

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A pair of carved jadeite beauties
44 | BONHAMS Late Qing/Republic period
The mirrored pair depicted coiffed in high chignons and attired
in loose tasseled robes holding vases containing long gnarled
branches of blooming flowers, carved from stone displaying vibrant
hues of apple and sea-foam green whorled into areas of lavender
and isolated veins of russet.
8in (20.3cm) height of each figure
9 5/8in (24.5cm) height including wood stand
$4,000 - 6,000

7055
A large spinach-green jade moon-flask and cover
Early 20th century
The flattened spherical body carved in relief on both sides with birds
and blooming prunus trees rising from faceted or perforated rocks,
the narrow sides with similarly decorated panels, the handles flanking
the waisted neck worked as two raised and deeply undercut clusters
of leafy peonies, the stepped mouth fitted with a trapezoidal cover
topped with another peony atop four undercut leaves, the whole
raised on a spreading pedestal foot.
13 3/4in (35cm) high
$8,000 - 12,000

Property from a San Francisco collection

7056
A celadon jade carving of the Hehe Erxian
18th/19th century
The pale green stone formed as the smiling twins kneeling closely
together as one holds a covered box and embraces the other who
grasps a stem of lotus blossom spreading over their shoulders, the
robes crisply incised.
2 3/8in (6cm) wide
$3,000 - 5,000

7057
A celadon and russet jade figure of Zhou Tanzi
17th/18th century
The smiling figure unusually carved crouching underneath a deer pelt
held aloft by a hoof in his right hand, the deer head resting on the
head of the figure, the left hand holding a bucket in front of the bent
knees, the deerskin carved from the russet stone enveloping the figure
behind and finely incised with scattered stars, the stone of even green
tone with scattered russet patches and stony inclusions and russet
staining on the reverse.
3 1/4in (8.3cm) high
$4,000 - 6,000

Zhou Tanzi, the seventh of the twenty-four paragons of filial piety, is
depicting camouflaging himself in a deer skin to obtain deer milk as a
cure for his parent’s eye malady. See the same figure in white jade sold
in Bonhams, Hong Kong, sale 15502, 26 May 2007, lot 302.

7058
A gray and black jade ‘lotus and bat’ group
17th/18th century
The pebble-shaped stone of a very pale gray streaked with fine black
inclusions, carved as two lotus see pods contained within a single
spreading leaf beside a leafy branch issuing two rounded peach and a
bat perched with spreading wings.
2 3/4in (7cm) wide
$4,000 - 6,000