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PROPERTY FROM A SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS
COUPLE
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8083 TWO JADE PENDANTS
A CELADON JADE FIGURE OF A BEAUTY Qing dynasty
20th century The first a thinly sectioned depiction of two snow peas hanging from a common
The elegant lady carved looking downward and gently leafy stem with tendrils descending on both faces, each legume finished with
smiling, the chignon hidden under a knotted veil and a delicate saw-tooth edge and some areas on the pale greenish-white stone
adorned with a flower, her right hand clasping a fan and highlighted with russet wash, a yellow metal suspension ring attached at the top;
the left hand a flowering stem, the long robe and sash the second a lingzhi fungus branch supporting three mushroom heads also finished
flowing gracefully to the hem. on both sides, one retaining some of the boulder’s russet-stained skin and opaque
8 3/4in (22.1cm) high straw-colored inclusions in the otherwise pale greenish-white matrix.
3 1/8in (8cm) height of snow peas
$2,500 - 4,000 2 3/8in (6.3cm) width of lingzhi fungus
二十世紀 青玉美人擺件 $2,000 - 3,000
清 青白玉珮 枚
Provenance
Collection of Brooks and Dorothy Cofield
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