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A GREEN AND RUSSET JADE
355 ‘MAGNOLIA’ BELT BUCKLE
Qing Dynasty
356 The pale green stone carved and incised in
142 | BONHAMS shallow relief and stained russet; together
with a mottled dragon-head belt hook and a
‘taijitu’ one.
The magnolia:7.6cm (3in) wide (3).

£600 - 800
CNY5,500 - 7,300
HK$6,600 - 8,800

355
A PALE JADE ARCHAISTIC BELT HOOK
Late Qing Dynasty
With phoenix head, carved with curvilinear
designs; together with a green and russet
jade slide also decorated with curvilinear
motifs.
9.2cm (2 5/8in) (2).

£800 - 1,200
CNY7,300 - 11,000
HK$8,800 - 13,000

356
A RUBY GLASS GLOBULAR SPITTOON
Qianlong four-character mark and of the
period
Together with an unusual agate oval water
pot, standing on tripod bracket feet, carved
from a translucent stone, the black inclusion
to the rim unusually carved in reticulation as
a flowering prunus branch with a bee and a
little bird perched atop; 18th/19th century;
and a russet agate brush washer in the shape
of a leaf.
11cm wide 4 1/4in) wide (3).

£600 - 800
CNY5,500 - 7,300
HK$6,600 - 8,800

Provenance
The agate tripod water pot: Louis Joseph
125(?) (label)

For an identical ruby spittoon with Qianlong
mark, but complete of its upper cup, see
S. Marchant and Son, Exhibition of Chinese
Glass, The Hope Danby Collection, London,
1999, no.3.