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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE LAS 3028 3032
VEGAS COLLECTION A GROUP OF FOUR JADE DECORATIONS A GROUP OF THREE JADE AND
Including two jade archer’s rings, one of HARDSTONE BELT HOOKS
3024 greenish hue with isolated yellow inclusions, The first of abstract rectangular section with
A GROUP OF SEVEN SMALL JADE AND the other of gray hue centered by an inclusion flat head and handle inscribed in archaistic
STONE CARVINGS forming a horizontal stripe of charcoal color; script and reversed by a rectangular button;
Including a leafy pomegranate with a raised the third a pale olive green jade cylindrical the second of mottled brown and olive hue
animal to its side; a model of a cicada; a fruit incense holder carved with archaistic displaying a dragon head facing a curving
group carved with a peach and Buddha’s decoration, the cover and base of gray-colored rectangular-sectioned handle worked with
hand citrons; an animal group featuring a hardstone held in place by silk cords; the fourth raised C-scrolls; the smallest of mottled olive
recumbent tiger, a snake, a scorpion, a toad, a jade-mounted silver hand mirror, the mirror and russet coloration, depicting a phoenix
and a crab; the fifth a toggle carved with a back centered with a mottled green and pale head facing a winged body with incised and
butterfly and melons; the sixth a goose; the russet bi disk carved with a dragon, the handle drilled details (button chipped).
seventh carved as a Buddha’s hand citron mounted with a jade dragon belt hook. 3 1/2 to 1 3/4in (9 to 4.5cm) long
and a boy (some with chips). 7 5/8in (19.3cm) height of incense holder $800 - 1,200
2 1/8 x 1 1/2in (5.4 x 3.8cm) dimensions of first 1 1/2in (3.5cm) diameter of larger ring
$2,000 - 3,000 $2,200 - 3,000 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF MS.
NAOMI LINDSTROM, SAN FRANCISCO,
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF MS. PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION CALIFORNIA
NAOMI LINDSTROM, SAN FRANCISCO, OF WITTER BYNNER (1881-1968),
CALIFORNIA PURCHASED IN CHINA IN 1917-1920 3033
A GROUP OF RETICULATED JADE
3025 3029 PLAQUES AND A TWO-SECTION BELT
A GROUP OF CARVED JADE JEWELRY A GROUP OF FOUR JADE AND BUCKLE
Including an oval-sectioned bangle with HARDSTONE BELT HOOKS WITH BIRD Including two lock-shaped plaques of cloud-
convex exterior walls, flattened top and AND ANIMAL MOTIFS collar silhouette, finished to both sides, one
base edges (cracked); two saddle-form Including two with bird-heads and a third with centered with an endless knot between bats,
rings without decoration and a third with horse-head hooks, each facing a swelling the other with lotus flowers and covered box
leafy spirals in raised relief across the spatulate handle, the stones of pale and associated with the Hehe twins; the third a
saddle; the fourth ring with convex exterior translucent olive green with russet markings; rectangular pendant with a reticulated crown
surface and flat interior wall, the stone the fourth cursorily carved with a bird head in the form of a dragon recumbent over a
showing some cloudy white inclusions and and a pair of wings in relief on the handle, the flowering narcissus plant and reversed by
a natural hairline fissure. [5] stone of opaque and cloudy greenish-white the character xi; the fourth a lock-shaped
3 1/2in (9cm) length across bangle with a pale russet vein. plaque of rectangular form and celadon hue,
$3,000 - 5,000 2 1/2 to 2 3/4in (6.5 to 7cm) long with reticulated dragon and wanzi borders
$1,200 - 1,800 surrounding a horizontal figural plaque and
PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS reversed by a four-character inscription; the
3030 fifth a two-section belt buckle, thinly sectioned
3026 A GROUP OF FIVE JADE AND and finished to one side as the Hehe twins
A CARVED JADE DRAGON PENDANT HARDSTONE BELT HOOKS standing amid clouds. [5]
Elegantly reticulated as three lithe and stylized Including one with a horse head and the 3 7/16in (8.6cm) width of rectangular plaque
dragons intricately intertwined, all suspended second a goose head, each facing a swelling $1,500 - 2,500
by a tiny rodent carved to one dragon’s tail, spatulate handle; the third with a two-horned
the stone of whitish gray hue displaying veins dragon-head hook and two others with a 3034
of notable icy inclusions (chips). single horn to the back of the dragon head. A GROUP OF CARVED SPINACH JADE
2 1/4 in (5.6cm) diameter 2 3/4 to 3 3/8in (7 to 8.5cm) long DECORATIONS
$1,500 - 2,500 $1,500 - 2,500 The first a rectangular-sectioned belt buckle
with indented corners and simple convex
3027 3031 face, reversed by a recessed trapezoidal hook
A CARVED JADE FIGURAL GROUPING A GROUP OF THREE JADE AND STONE facing an oval button; the second, the loop
OF GEESE DRAGON BELT HOOKS section from a two-section belt buckle, deeply
The larger and smaller fowl nestled The largest of strongly mottled brown and undercut with a curled chilong and reversed
parallel to each other upon a large lotus pale greenish-white jade carved with a thinly by a circular button, the loop on the buckle
leaf, reticulated to each clutch at a single sectioned and curving spatulate handle (button tied with four stings holding a total of fifty-nine
leafy branch; the stone of gray green hue, chipped); the second of olive green jade with beads in various sizes.
mottled in cloudy inclusions. russet markings carved with a cub dragon 3 1/8in (8cm) length across rectangular buckle
2 5/8in (6.7cm) long facing the dragon-head hook; the third of pale $1,000 - 1,500
$2,000 - 3,000 straw-colored stone with a thinly sectioned and
curving spatulate handle (edge chipped).
3 3/8 to 3 7/8in (8.5 to 9.7cm) long
$1,000 - 1,500
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