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PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS

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A JADE GOOSE-SHAPED WATER DROPPER                                           A PALE GRAY-GREEN JADE LANDSCAPE BOULDER
The recumbent bird identified by a raised knob above its beak clasping      Of irregular shape and intricately worked as craggy rock faces rising
a trillium branch, a fungus branch forming the finial to the tiny cover on  amid tree-filled mountain paths, one side depicting two scholars and
the well-hollowed body with drill holes through the tail and the beak,      their servants crossing a river on a wooden foot bridge, the reverse
the pale greenish white matrix marked with russet patches and natural       showing a water carrier and a man riding an ox toward a village
fissure lines.                                                              building; the matrix marked with cloudy white inclusions and faint
3 1/4in (8.3cm) long                                                        russet-stained natural fissures.
                                                                            5 3/4in (14.6cm) long
US$2,000 - 3,000
                                                                            US$3,000 - 5,000

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