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PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN COLLECTION              AN EDWARD I. FARMER STERLING                      A CARVED JADEITE FIGURE OF A
                                                  SILVER-MOUNTED COPPER-RED                         MEIREN
A GREEN BERYL VASE AND COVER                      GLAZED INKWELL WITH JADE                          LATE QING DYNASTY / 20TH
QING DYNASTY                                      FINIAL                                            CENTURY
                                                  THE PORCELAIN 19TH CENTURY
carved in high relief with leafy rose stems and   THE SILVER MOUNTS EARLY 20TH                      the slender immortal in long robes, standing with
blossoms enveloping a small baluster-form vase,   CENTURY                                           both hands clasping sprigs of lingzhi, anked by
a purple vein to one side of the vessel, mounted  THE JADE YUAN / MING DYNASTY                      a crane emerging from water with a leafy lotus
as a lamp                                                                                           stem and a young acolyte holding a peach in
Height 5½ in., 14 cm                              the dark-red glazed compressed, globular          one hand and a y whisk in the other, the stone
                                                  porcelain vessel mounted and raised on a gilt-    varying in color from dark to apple green with
$ 2,000-3,000                                     metal foot, stamped Edward I. Farmer, New York,   russet inclusions
                                                  the mouth rim mounted with a silver collar and    Height 8¾ in., 22.2 cm
㶭ġġġ䵈㞙䞛晽剙⋱䲳味䒞㓡墅冢䅰                                 inkwell stamped sterling, with a hinged cover
                                                  surmounted by an openwork carved black and        $ 6,000-8,000
                                                  white jade hair ornament mounted as a nial
                                                  Height 5 in., 12.8 cm                             㶭㛓ġİġḴ⋩ᶾ䲨ġġġ侈䌱晽伶Ṣ䩳⁷

                                                  PROVENANCE

                                                  Collection of William O’Donnell (1924-2013), Los
                                                  Angeles, California.
                                                  Collection of F. Bailey Vanderhoef (1913-2008),
                                                  Ojai, California, acquired circa 1965-69.

                                                  $ 2,000-3,000

                                                  䒟☐烉⋩ḅᶾ䲨
                                                  ⊭戨烉Ḵ⋩ᶾ䲨⇅
                                                  䌱憽烉⃫ġİġ㖶ġġġ
                                                  䲭慱⊭戨搚䌱憽⡐㰈

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