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Two carved white jade belt accessories
18th/19th century
The first a two-section belt buckle with a lingzhi form hook, each
segment with a circular shou character flanked by a bat; the second
a white and russet jade toggle of a climbing chilong on a large lingzhi
fungus.
4in (10cm) length of two-section belt buckle
$2,000 - 3,000

Property from the Collection of Colonel John C.
Young (Rong Zhaozhen) and Mary Lee Young (Li Ruxin)

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An archaistic jade pendant
17th/18th century
Carved to both sides as a crested bird’s head and neck issuing from
the left side of a circular disk reticulated with a design of overlapping
flower petals, the right side fashioned as a faceted gui scepter with
reticulated side loops, the off-white stone marked with russet patches
on one side and icy white inclusions.
3in (7.5cm) long
$6,000 - 8,000

Property from a Sherman Oaks Couple

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Two jade carvings of cats
Qing dynasty
Both pebbles of flattened oval form: the first of off-white hue with a
russet patch at the base that forms part of the bushy tail textured with
delicate incised lines on one of the two felines; the second pebble of
‘salt and pepper’ type with one cat carved from the mottled charcoal
vein and the other cat displaying cloudy white inclusions in the the
pale grayish-white vein.
2 and 1 3/4in (5 and 4.5cm) long
$3,000 - 5,000

Property of an Oregon Collector

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A carved rock crystal plaque
Tang dynasty
The thick square-sectioned plaque incised and carved in relief with a
depiction of a female musician wearing a long flowing shawl, seated
on a mat playing cymbals, her legs crossed to the front, her delicate
face rendered with incised lines; the nearly perfectly clear stone with
tiny dark specks.
1 3/4 x 1 3/4 x 3/8in (4.5 x 4.5 x 1cm)
$4,000 - 6,000

Provenance
acquired 1991, J.J. Lallly & Co. New York

Compare a set of nine agate belt plaques from the British Museum,
dated Tang dynasty, illustrated in the exhibition catalog Chinese Jade
throughout the Ages, Jessica Rawson and John Ayers, Victoria Albert
Museum, p. 77, no. 222.

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