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1038 PROPERTY OF AN AMERICAN LADY

1039 A SOAPSTONE FIGURE OF GUANYIN
108 SOTHEBY’S QING DYNASTY, 17TH / 18TH CENTURY

carved seated holding a bottle vase, in robes incised with scrolling
clouds and falling into voluminous folds over the wrists, the
benevolent face below a hooded high chignon, the opaque stone
of a beige tone with traces of pigment, tted stand (2)
Height 7 in., 17.8 cm

$ 800-1,200

㶭⋩ᶫġİġ⋩ℓᶾ䲨ġġġ⢥Ⱉ䞛晽奨枛⛸⁷

1038

A JADE CARVING OF A MYTHICAL BEAST AND
A CRYSTAL WASHER
MING / QING DYNASTY

the mythical beast carved recumbent with its legs tucked beneath
its body; the washer carved as a mandarin duck resting on a lotus
stem, wood stand, Japanese wood box (5)
Length of larger 3⅛ in., 8 cm

$ 1,000-1,500

㖶ġİġ㶭ġġġ曺䌱晽䐆䌠㈲ẞ⍲勞㘞ⶏ晽泃泎匟叱㲿

1039

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MON LING YU
LANDEGGER

TWO PALE CELADON JADE CARVINGS
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

the rst, a vertically oriented Buddha’s hand citron, the long
curling ‘ ngers’ emerging from a twisted openwork stem; the
second, a recumbent cat, its head turned backwards gazing at a
large butter y in high relief to one side, forming the rebus maodie
(‘may you live into your seventies and eighties’), wood stand (3)
Length of larger 2¾ in., 7 cm

$ 3,000-5,000

㶭⋩ḅᶾ䲨ġġġ曺䘥䌱晽ἃㇳ⍲侬侳㒢ẞ