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A WHITE JADE ‘TWIN DEER AND LINGZHI’
GROUP
17TH CENTURY

finely carved as a pair of recumbent deer with legs neatly tucked beneath
their bodies and heads turned toward each other, lying amid large craggy
rocks, depicted grasping a long curling leafy lingzhi stem in their mouths,
the edges of their tails and ears delicately incised with tufts of hair, the softly
polished white stone of an even colour
. , ¼ .
£ 20,000-30,000
HK$ 193,000-290,000 US$ 24,900-37,300

For footnote see p. 136

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