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PROPERTY FROM THE LIZZADRO COLLECTION
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A WHITE JADE LOCK-FORM PLAQUE
18TH-19TH CENTURY
The plaque is well carved in openwork with the scrolling bodies of two dragons that
fank a panel carved in low relief on one side with peony growing amidst rocks and on
the reverse with a fruiting and fowering pomegranate branch, the ends of the dragons’
tails support a small bat and a bar joins the backs of their outward-facing heads.
The semi-translucent stone is of even color.
3¡ in. (8.5 cm.) wide
$5,000-7,000
PROVENANCE
Lizzadro Collection, Elmhurst, Illinois, acquired prior to 1960.
(reverse)
清十八/十九世紀 白玉鏤雕龍紋團花鎖牌
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