Page 78 - Yamanaka co Auction catalog

PERSONAL ORNAMENTS PRESENTED TO THE
IMPERIAL FAMILY

125- TOURMALINE PENDANT (Ch'ien-lung)
The tourmaline, or as it is sometimes called, "Chinese ruby,"
is a deep pink with purplish trend, and is carved in the
form of a double-gourd, flattened, with lesser gourds and
stems of the vine, and also an emblematic bat adorning it.
The whole is brilliantly polished. On the cord an ornament
of fei-ts'ui jade between small pearls.

126-FEI-TS'UI tJADE PENDANT (Ch'ien-lung)
Brilliantly polished jade of translucent emerald green,
carved in the form of peaches flattened, gourds and leaves,
and on one of the peaches a bat-like the peaches them-
selves an emblem of long life. Suspended by pearls and
pink tourmaline.

127-Two .FEI-TS'UI JADE PENDANTS (Ch'ien-lung)
Hemispherical; carved, pierced and engraved, each sus-
pended by yellow silken cord on which are strung tourma-
line and pearl ornaments. Mottled jade of light emerald-
green and the white of melting snow on water, with a soft
and brilliant polish. In one the design is that of a fabulous
monster holding a branch of the sacred fungus, and in the
other two of the dogs Fu appear with the brocaded ball.

128-FEI-TS'UI JADE PENDANT (Ch'ien-lung)
A pendant drop of jade, intricately and ingeniously carved
in representation of peaches, the Buddha's-hand citron and
a "Buddha's flower" or flower of paradise, in relief and
undercutting and in the round; the whole brilliantly pol-
ished. The jade is of a green darker than emerald, very
rich, and with the characteristic translucence.