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133-FEI-TS'UI JADE PENDANT (Ch'ien-lung)
"The Two Tigers." A very ancient motive, which is found
in jade and other talismanic offerings that early tombs
have given up, and which has been continuously reproduced
by the Chinese workers in stone, metal and textiles. The
two beasts of the jungle are carved in the round in a deli-
cately mottled piece of light green translucent jade, hung
by a silken cord on which are strung pearl-groups and a
pink tourmaline.
(Illustrated)

134-FEI-TS'UI JADE PENDANT (Ch'ien-lung)
In elongated melon-form, carved, pierced and undercut
with a design of peaches, the sacred fungus and a crow.
Bright emerald-green jade mottled with white. On the
cord above, a pink tourmaline or "Chinese ruby," carved
in emblematic bat-form, is strung between groups of small
pearls.
(Illustrated)

135-FEI-TS'UI JADE PENDANT (Ch'ien-lung)
In the form of a coin of the Han dynasty, and the hue of
"moss in melting snow." Three tigers are carved in scroll-
ing form, with piercings, their bodies encircling the piece
and that of one of them elongated and represented as
passing through an aperture in the center. "Chinese ruby"
or pink tourmaline and pearls ornamenting the hanging-
cord.
(Illustrated)

136-FEI-TS'UI JADE PENDANT (Ch'ien-lung)
Carved after an ancient Han design, in which a water
dragon is represented, in bold relief and undercutting,
crawling over an elongated disc which is pierced at its cen-
ter. The dragon holds in its mouth a branch of conven-
tional lotus, which trails down the pendant and is also
in bold relief, and the back of the disc is carved in low
relief with conventional scrolls. The jade is of a light,
melting green mingled with white, and of delicate trans-
lucence. Pearls and pink tourmaline adorn its hanging-
cords.
(Illustrated)