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PROPERTY FROM A SAN FRANCISCO COUPLE
LOTS 548 - 555
548
A JADEITE HANGING FLOWER BASKET
Late Qing dynasty/Republic period
Carved with a loose ring at the top of the cusped handle which pivots For a prototype in white nephrite, see the pair of flower basket
within the arched handles on flattened basket shape filled with a pendants dated to the Qianlong or Jiaqing period in James C. Y. Watt,
flowering peony plant, the rim of the basket finished with a row of tiny Chinese Jades from the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Japan,
raised bosses and the opposing walls of the body filled with reserves 1988, fig. 84, p.102 (2 3/4in (7cm) high).
of composite flowers and leaves in delicate raised relief, the stone
showing a range of color from translucent greenish white at the top to
brilliant leaf green at the base.
5 1/8in (13cm) high

$10,000 - 15,000
清末/民國 翠玉雕提樑花籃

Provenance:
A San Francisco Couple

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