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THE PROPERTY OF AN ENGLISH FAMILY THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN THE PROPERTY OF A LADY 女士藏品
英國家族藏品 士紳藏品
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A MUGHAL-STYLE PALE GREEN JADE A SPINACH GREEN JADE RUYI SCEPTRE A SPINACH-GREEN JADE BRUSHPOT,
‘FLORAL’ BOWL AND COVER Late Qing Dynasty BITONG
18th/19th century Well carved with two peaches issuing from a 19th century
The shallow bowl carved with thin rounded sinuous branch, flanked by two branches of Crisply carved around the exterior of a
sides and raised on a short foot, decorated lingzhi at the end, the large lingzhi terminal continuous landscape scene with a scholar
in relief with four large flower heads borne on accentuated with ‘eyes’ and ‘brows’, the walking to a pavilion with a young attendant
scrolling foliage, the domed cover similarly latter formed by a flying bat, the pale green leading a deer, another young attendant
decorated, surmounted by a bud-shaped stone with white inclusions, black speckles picking a lingzhi fungus on a cliff-face while a
finial carved with a flower head, the semi- and russet veins. crane is picking lingzhi from his basket, all set
translucent stone of a pale green tone with 34.5cm (13 3/5in) long within a rocky terrain strewn with pine woods,
creamy inclusions. the stone of a polished rich green tone.
11.5cm (4 1/2in) diam. (2). £3,000 - 5,000 14.6cm (5 3/4in) high.
CNY27,000 - 45,000
£3,000 - 4,000 清末 碧玉福壽靈芝如意 £5,000 - 8,000
CNY27,000 - 36,000 CNY45,000 - 72,000
Provenance: a Swiss private collection
十八/十九世紀 十九世紀 碧玉高士秋遊圖筆筒
青白玉痕都斯坦式纏枝花卉紋蓋盌 來源： 瑞士私人收藏

Provenance: an English private collection Compare with a related jade ruyi sceptre,
Qing dynasty, illustrated in Compendium of
來源：英國私人收藏 Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade, 8,
Beijing, 2011, no.72. See also a spinach-
green jade ruyi sceptre, late Qing dynasty,
which was sold at Sotheby’s New York, 21
March 2015, lot 696.

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
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