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TWO PALE GREEN JADE PENDANTS
8019 18th/19th century
The first, a bell of trapezoidal form with a
26 | BONHAMS rectangular suspension loop, hollowed out
on the interior and carved on both sides
with consecutive panels of a dragon, circular
bosses and a key-fret pattern above the
concave line of the base, the stone of pale
greenish-white with some cloudy white
inclusions; the second pendant of thin oval
section, undercut and finished on both sides
as a parrot standing on a prunus tree branch
amid bamboo and lingzhi fungus sprigs, the
pale greenish-white stone showing a very
pale brown patch near the base and now
mounted in silver as the front to a spring-
form paper clip.
2 3/4 and 2 7/16in (7 and 6.1cm) long
$2,000 - 3,000

十八或十九世紀 青玉墜兩只

8019
TWO VERY PALE GREEN AND RUSSET
JADE PENDANTS
18th/19th century
The first depicting three lingzhi fungus
heads with deeply undercut stems forming
suspension loops, the mottled golden
brown skin coloring the heads and the
stems displaying a translucent off-white
surface with cloudy white inclusions; the
second depicting three plump sparrows
hovering around branches of lingzhi fungus
and persimmons, the stems and twigs
elaborately undercut, the varied hues of the
skin utilized for the birds and leaves and the
remaining surfaces revealing a pale greenish-
white stone of fairly even hue.
2 and 1 3/4in (5 and 4.5cm) long
$2,000 - 3,000

十八或十九世紀 褐斑青白玉墜兩只

The lingzhi fungus head appears on the
wish-granting scepter (ruyi). The sound for
persimmons (shi) is the same as the word for
things; so the second toggle represents the
rebus shishi ruyi - ‘may everything be as you
wish.’ See Terese Tse Bartholomew, Hidden
Meanings in Chinese Art, 2006, p. 261, 9.8.3.