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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
1248
A BROWN AND GREENISH-GREY JADE
`MAKARA' VASE GROUP
18TH-19TH CENTURY
9¿ in. (23.1 cm.) high
$8,000-12,000
PROVENANCE:
Estate of June Hirsch Jones (1931-2021), Palm
Beach, Florida.

According to Buddhist legend, the makara was
originally a whale that saved the lives of five
hundred drowning merchants at sea, and then
sacrificed itself by providing its own body for food
to feed the victims. Because of its compassion
and sacrifice, both important virtues in Buddhist
philosophy, the whale was then immortalised and
transformed into a makara, characterised by the
head of a dragon, the body of a whale with wings
and a pearl by its side. A similar white and russet
jade markara from the Hartman Collection was
sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 28 November 2006,
1246 (two views)
lot 1425.
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF SAM AND MYRNA MYERS PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF SAM AND MYRNA MYERS
1246 1247 清十Ջ 十̏ˠ紀ǎ青灰玉雕摩Ⓓ魚花插
Ϝ源
A SMALL PALE GREYISH-WHITE JADE FIGURE OF A MYTHICAL A SMALL WHITE JADE FIGURE OF A RECUMBENT MYTHICAL
BEAST BEAST +VOF )JSTDI +POFT
舊藏
棕櫚灘
ζ
17TH-18TH CENTURY 17TH-18TH CENTURY 羅里達州
2º in. (5.7 cm.) long 2 in. (5.1 cm.) long

$8,000-12,000 $8,000-12,000
PROVENANCE: PROVENANCE:
Vallin Galleries, Connecticut, 17 January 1981. Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12 June 1985.

4". 及 .:3/" .:&34 珍藏 4". 及 .:3/" .:&34 珍藏
十ˑ 十Ջˠ紀ǎ灰白玉雕瑞獸把件 十ˑ 十Ջˠ紀ǎ白玉瑞獸把件
Ϝ源 Ϝ源
7BMMJO (BMMFSJFT
康涅Ṽ格州
年 月 日 巴黎德魯奧
年 月 日

1247 (two views)