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PROPERTY FROM A PEBBLE BEACH
PRIVATE COLLECTION

~1034

A PAIR OF GREEN JADE JARDINIÈRES
WITH JADE AND HARDSTONE
`LOTUS PLANTS’
JARDINIéRES: QIANLONG FOUR-
CHARACTER SEAL MARKS AND PROBABLY
OF THE PERIOD, THE CARVED ELEMENTS
LATER

The jardinières have deep rounded sides, that rise
from a shallow foot ring. The interior is ftted with
silk thread-wrapped wire stems bearing lotus buds
and blossoms in tourmaline, white jade, green
jadeite and seed pearls, and lotus pods and leaves
in greyish-green jade, with smaller fowers in white
jade and coral dispersed amidst the stems. A small
kingfsher carved in spinach-green jade alights on
a branch and a goldfsh carved from carnelian and
painted in gilt foats atop the “water” formed from
blue glass beads.

19Ω in. (49.7 cm.) high (2)
$30,000-50,000

灰青玉鑲百寶盆景一對

(mark)