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A PALE GREEN JADE ‘APSARA’ CARVING
Qing Dynasty
The flying figure elegantly modelled, holding a
billowing celestial scarf and flying above cloud
scroll motifs, the pale stone of even tone, with
slight russet inclusions to the underside.
8.5cm (3.3/8in) long.

423 £800 - 1,200
CNY7,100 - 11,000
HK$8,800 - 13,000
Provenance
The Philp Cardeiro Collection, Knapton Rasti
Asian Art, 2009, no. 14.

For a Song Dynasty example, see The Muwen
Tang Collection of Chinese Jades, Sotheby’s,
Hong Kong, 1 December 2016, lot 210.

A female spirit of the clouds in Buddhist
mythology, apsaras were beautiful heavenly
attendants to deities. Jade figures of flying
apsaras began to appear from the Tang
dynasty.
424
A PALE GREEN AND RUSSET JADE
‘FISH’ PENDANT
17th/18th century
Delicately carved as a coiled fish, with round
424 eyes and finely detailed fins and scales, the
stone of a pale green tone with speckled
brown and cloudy inclusions, one side with
traces of the russet skin.
5cm (2in) long
£3,000 - 5,000
CNY27,000 - 44,000
HK$33,000 - 55,000
425 Y Ф
A CREAM AND BROWN JADE
‘ELEPHANT’ PENDANT
17th century
The beast carved standing with its large head
turned back, with full caparison, the stone of
a mottled hue. 4.8cm (1 7/8in) wide

£800 - 1,200
CNY7,100 - 11,000
HK$8,800 - 13,000

425

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