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A VERY PALE GREEN JADE BOOK
Comprising six tablets incised with famous 658 (part lot)
Chinese beauties including Wang Zhaojun,
the reverses with forty-character poetic
inscriptions, all mounted in a folding book with
hardwood covers, box. 19cm (7 1/2in) high
£800 - 1,200
CNY6,900 - 10,000 HK$8,000 - 12,000
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A MOTTLED GREEN AND BROWN JADE
BRUSH POT
20th century
The mottled stone deeply hollowed and
carved to the exterior with two medallions of
shallow-relief, auspicious phrases; together
with a reticulated, russet and pale green,
jadeite brushpot carved with the ‘Three
Friends of Winter’, wood stand.
13.2cm (5 1/8in) high (2).
£800 - 1,200
CNY6,900 - 10,000 HK$8,000 - 12,000
Provenance
Peter Francis
The London Estate of an Eminent Chinese
Collector.
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A LARGE MOTTLED GREEN JADE
CARVING OF A DOG
20th century
Carved in the Song Dynasty style, the
hound with its head up and alert, with its
forepaws together, the tail curling over the
rear haunches, the stone of a green hue with
mottled grey patches, wood stand.
24cm (9 3/8in) wide (2).
£800 - 1,200
CNY6,900 - 10,000 HK$8,000 - 12,000
END OF SALE
THE FORTHCOMING ASIAN ART AUCTION
WILL BE HELD ON 8 MAY 2017
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