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557
THREE JADE CARVINGS
Qing dynasty and later
The first, a pebble of triangular profile retaining some of its original
russet skin, delicately worked as two bats hovering over two peaches
hanging from a branch and reversed by a ten-character inscription in
raised running script; the second a thinly sectioned pendant carved
and undercut to both sides as an archaistic ax blade with cloud-collar
flanges projecting from along one edge and on the other a dragon with
its tail curling upward toward the transverse guard beneath an animal
mask forming the pommel; the third a thinly sectioned pendant finished
as a winged dragon with a curling tail, the surfaces subtly defined
557 with raised edges and shallow concave contours, one side retaining a
mottled dark russet patch.
2 1/2in (6.4cm) width of pebble; 3 1/8in (8cm) length of pendants (3).

$5,000 - 8,000

清及更晚 玉雕三件
558
TWO CELADON JADE ORNAMENTS
The first a bi disc, carved in relief to one side with a writhing chilong,
the other side with a field of raised bosses, the translucent pale stone
with opaque white inclusions, wood stand; the second a model of
a recumbent horse, the stone with a grayish tinge and light amber
patches.
The disc 2 1/4in (5.5cm) diam. (2).
$1,500 - 2,000

青白玉雕兩件
559
TWO CELADON JADE PLAQUES
558 Qing dynasty
The first of oval outline, deeply carved with a scene of Shoulao on a
terrace overlooking four immortals in a rocky landscape, likely made
to be mounted in a ruyi scepter, now mounted in a reticulated wood
frame as a table screen; the second carved in the outline of a ruyi-
form lock, reticulated with a design of the Hehe immortals in a rocky
landscape against a foliate ground, wood stand.
The larger 5 3/4in (14.6cm) width (2).

$2,500 - 4,000

清 青玉雕仙人紋牌兩件

559 (image of one)

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