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ANOTHER PROPERTY THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
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A PALE GREENISH-WHITE AND RUSSET JADE BRUSH WASHER A WHITE JADE `DOUBLE' SEAL
17TH-18TH CENTURY 18TH-19TH CENTURY
The shallow brush washer is of irregular pebble shape and carved in low relief The two conjoined, square seals are surmounted by a chilong grasping a
on the incurved rim with a monkey sitting on a pine tree and another monkey lingzhi sprig in its mouth. The bases of the seal are crisply carved, one with four
leaping off a pine tree on the opposite side. The stone is of pale greenish-white characters reading chen Zhong Zhuo yin, and the other, Wan Qing. The stone is
tone with opaque russet areas to the base. of an even white color with areas of faint russet color to the surface at the top.
2 in. (5 cm.) long
5º in. (13.3 cm.) long
$8,000-12,000
$6,000-8,000
PROVENANCE:
Acquired in the mid-20th century, and thence by descent to the present owner.
十七/十八世紀 青白玉雕靈猴圖洗
私人珍藏
清十八/十九世紀 白玉螭龍擒芝鈕雙聯章
印文：「臣鍾琢印」 「完卿」
來源:
二十世紀中葉入藏, 後傳承至現藏家。

Zhong Zhuo, the individual for whom the seal was made, probably served as
a government official, which is indicated by the character chen that precedes
his name on the first seal. Wan Qing, which is inscribed on the second seal,
may be a hao, or sobriquet, of Zhong Zhuo.
Compare the small white jade 'double' seal of comparable size (4.6 cm.)
comprised of two small square blocks joined by the entwined bodies of
the two chilong carved on top, dated Qing dynasty, illustrated in Jade, The
Ultimate Treasure of Ancient China, Ontario, Canada, 2000, p. 180, no. 107-11.

767 (impression)
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