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THREE CHINESE HARDSTONE ITEMS
QING DYNASTY
Comprising: a celadon jade circular box and cover carved with flowerheads
and scrolling branches, a celadon and black jade or agate waterpot flanked
by animal mask handles, together with a spoon, and a small pale celadon jade
bowl with a wood stand, 7.3cm max. (6)
£500-800

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A CHINESE SPINACH-GREEN JADE BOWL AND A PALE CELADON
JADE ‘BITTER MELON’ CARVING
18 CENTURY
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The bowl rising from a short flared foot to an everted rim, the stone with
dark speckles and inclusions, with a paper label reading ‘155’, the pale
celadon carving formed as two fruits, the stone with minor russet markings,
with a label reading ‘178’, each together with a numbered wood stand,
16.8cm and 5.8cm. (4)
£200-300
Provenance: from the Fryers Collection of Chinese Art, collection nos.155 and 178. 665
The bowl purchased from René Kitchen Ltd, London, on 15th August 1969. A copy
of the invoice is available.
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TWO CHINESE CELADON JADE ANIMAL CARVINGS
QING DYNASTY
One formed as two chilong curled upon a large leaf, with a bat and lingzhi
around them, the stone with russet markings, the other formed as a seated
goose with its head turned back and its wings tucked by its side, the stone
with dark markings, with impressed seal wax to the underside, 6.8cm and
6.5cm. (2)
£300-500
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TWO CHINESE STONE CARVINGS
QING DYNASTY
One a brush washer carved in a celadon and black stone, decorated in relief
with gnarled peach branches wrapping their way around the body, together
with a wood stand, the other a vase in spinach-green stone, formed as a large
melon surrounded by smaller fruits and foliage, 8.6cm and 13cm. (3)
£200-300
Provenance: Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942), Edmund de Rothschild
(1916-2009), the Trustees of Exbury House. 666

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