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1026 ANOTHER PROPERTY

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A WHITE JADE ARCHAISTIC PENDANT

18TH CENTURY
The pendant is well carved with an archaistic dragon with backward-
turned head, and the reverse with further archaistic designs. The white,
semi-translucent stone is softly polished. Together and mounted in silver
with a smaller jade plaque carved as a ruyi-head encircling a small shou-
character roundel.
Pendant: 2º in. (5.7 cm.) long, silver mount

$5,000-7,000

清十八世紀 白玉仿古龍紋珮

THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTOR

1027
A LARGE WHITE JADE BELT HOOK

18TH-19TH CENTURY
The top is carved in openwork and undercut with a chilong crawling
towards the dragon-head hook and a circular stud on the reverse.
The stone is of even white color with some mottling.
5Ω in. (14 cm.) long

$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE

Gallery Kuo (Arnold Kramert), Berlin, 1980s.
清十八/十九世紀 白玉蒼龍教子帶鉤

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