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8049 PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS

8050 8049
36 | BONHAMS A CARVED JADE BI DISK
Mid-Qing dynasty or later
The thin sectioned disc carved to one side in
a dense ground of interlocking scroll patterns
and reversed by intertwined archaistic
dragons, the stone of celadon hue marked by
large areas of intense russet.
5 7/8in (15cm) diameter

$4,000 - 6,000

清中期或更晚 青白玉雕龍紋

Provenance
Spink & Son, Ltd. London, 11 August 1969,
as 17th century

Alhough the craftsmanship of the tightly
composed scroll motifs and archaistic
kaozheng movement subject matter strongly
point to a high-Qing date of manufacture,
a nearly identical bi disk in size, color and
subject matter in the collection of the Asian
Art Museum of San Francisco is dated as
1900-1949: collection number B60J406.
For a fascinating discussion of the rigorous
re-dating of the jades in the Avery Brundage
collection by Yang Boda in the 1990s, see
Knight, Li, and Bartholomew, Later Chinese
Jades: Ming Dynasty to Early Twentieth
Century (San Francisco: Asian Art Museum of
San Francisco), pp. 95-140 and passim.

8050
A CARVED NEPHRITE HANDLED CUP
Late Qing/Republic period
Rendered in the Ming style, the thick walls
supporting a beast-form handle attached to
its raised-relief multi-branch tail as well as
the remaining bottom half of a similar now-
lost opposing beast handle, all raised atop
a recessed base unusually perforated by a
circular aperture leading to the hollow interior
of a convex protrusion centering the interior
well; the stone carved of mottled gray and
oatmeal hue streaked in veins of prominent
black inclusions.
5 1/4in (13.3cm) width over handle

$1,500 - 2,500

晚清或民國 玉雕 紋 耳