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ANOTHER PROPERTY
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THREE SMALL WHITE JADE GARMENT HOOKS
18TH CENTURY
The wide top of one is carved with a design of interwoven parallel lines, and has a dragon-head hook;
one tapers to a pointed end and is carved with a conforming panel of cloud scroll, and has a ruyi-shaped
hook carved with a bat above a circular medallion; the third is carved with archaistic designs and has a
dragon-head hook.
The largest 3¬ in. (9.2 cm.) long
(3)
$12,000-15,000

PROVENANCE
The two dragon-headed hooks: L. E. Fernandes Collection, Portugal.
Compare two ruyi-head white jade hairpins illustrated by M. Knight, He Li and T. T. Bartholomew,
Later Chinese Jades: Ming Dynasty to Early Twentieth Century From the Asian Art Museum of San
Francisco, San Francisco, 2007, p. 47, nos. 3 and 4, where the authors note that hairpins of this ruyi
design likely originated from metal hairpins used in northern China, and became popular in both
metal and jade during the Qing period.
清十八世紀 白玉帶鉤三件

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