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A PAIR OF SPINACH GREEN JADE                      magpie gazing up at the other on a trunk issuing  a tted wood stand carved with lingzhi and ruyi
TABLE SCREENS                                     branches laden with peony buds, the other         to the openwork standard, further raised on a
20TH CENTURY                                      magpie focusing on a large blossom at the end of  scrolled bracket base (4)
                                                  a leafy, angled branch, the reverse of each with  Diameter 7⅜ in., 18.7 cm
each of circular form, relief-carved to both      further blossoms and foliage, with an apocryphal
faces, one with a pair of magpies perched facing  two-character Qianlong seal mark carved to the    $ 20,000-30,000
each other in the crook of a knotted, curving     side, the stone of a translucent spinach green
prunus branch in bloom, the other with one        with scattered black eck inclusions, raised on    Ḵ⋩ᶾ䲨ġġġ䡏䌱晽剙沍⚾⚻㍺⯷ᶨ⮵

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