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PROPERTY FROM THE LIZZADRO COLLECTION

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A SMALL FINELY CARVED PALE GREY AGATE PENDANT
SUZHOU SCHOOL, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
The pendant is carved as a peach borne on an openwork branch carved at the top with a dragonfy with
spread wings and to one side with a small monkey facing a small bat, all of their eyes picked out in the dark
brown markings in the stone, as is the four-character phrase, fu zhi xin ling (may your mind be clear when
blessings arrive) followed by two illegible characters, possibly a cyclical date or signature, carved on a
fattened peach on the reverse.
1√ in. (4.8 cm.) wide

$7,000-9,000

PROVENANCE
Lizzadro Collection, Elmhurst, Illinois, acquired prior to 1960.
清十八/十九世紀 蘇作瑪瑙巧雕「福至心靈」墜

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