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8053 PROPERTY FROM A SAN FRANCISCO
BAY AREA COUPLE
8053
A FINE VERY PALE GREEN JADE
‘IMMORTAL AND PRUNUS’
WATER COUPE
17th century
The peach-shaped coupe smoothly hollowed
and surrounded by intertwined leafy branches
issuing five-petaled prunus blossoms, and
lingzhi fungus heads, one lingzhi fungus
supporting a laughing figure of an Immortal
holding a peach between a bat with
outstretched wings and a bird in flight.
4in (10cm) long
$6,000 - 9,000
十七世紀 青玉 人 壽
8054
A PALE GREEN JADE
CARVING OF A MOUNTAIN
18th/19th century
Finely carved as a miniature mountain scene
of a scholar and his boy attendant with a
peach traversing a bridge spanning a rushing
stream towards a remote pavilion, all amid
pine and wutong, the reverse with deep rocky
hollows and a crane in flight.
3 1/2in (9cm) wide
$10,000 - 15,000
十八或十九世紀 青玉雕 人
8054
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