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A GREEN JADE MUGHAL-STYLE BRUSH
214 SOTHEBY’S HANDLE
QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY

the length of the handle carved as a twisted rope capped
with a bud-shaped terminus, the brush socket formed as a
blossoming ower with the carefully-carved petals extending
toward the brush’s bristles, the sage-green stone softly
polished
Length 6⅜ in., 16.2 cm

PROVENANCE
Christie’s New York, 16th September 1998,
lot 122 (part lot).

$ 4,000-6,000

1998 9 16 122

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A PAIR OF WHITE AND GREEN JADE BRUSH
HANDLES
QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY

on both the white jade cylinder handle carved with owering
branches, the bulbous spinach-green jade brush socket incised
with cicada lappets, at the opposite end a spinach-green jade
terminus incised with keyfret and extending into a bud-shaped

nial (2)
Length 8¼ in., 20.9 cm

PROVENANCE
Christie’s New York, 16th September 1998, lot 122 (part lot).

$ 5,000-7,000

1998 9 16 122

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A JADE BRUSH REST
SONG-MING DYNASTY

carved as a miniature landscape in the form of a mountain
range, the peaks articulated in varying depths and heights, the
contours and surface polished to a soft nish, the stone with
white, yellow, and russet tones, wood stand (2)
Length 6¼ in., 16 cm

PROVENANCE
Collection of Gerald Godfrey, Hong Kong.
S. Bernstein & Co., San Francisco.

EXHIBITED
Stones of Virtue: Chinese Jades from the Gerald Godfrey
Collection, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, 1989, cat. no. 363.

$ 10,000-15,000