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China: 18th Century
Length: 3.3/4in [ 9.5cm ]
A white jade brushrest in the form of a raft, a scholar in flowing robes leans against a branch, a small boy with anklets and bracelets crouches at his feet, a lingzhi spray in greyish brown tones issuing from the back, the details well defined.
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China: early 18th Century
Diameter: 3.1/2in [ 8.9cm ]
A pair of white jade wine cups, the gently flaring sides rising from a slightly recessed foot, the well polished stone of an even crushed ice tone.
China: Qianlong [ 1736-95 ]
Diameter: 3.7/8in [ 9.8cm ]
A pair of Moghul style white jade bowls, each of fluted form rising from a short foot to a slightly flaring rim, modelled as open chrysanthemum heads, the details well defined, the undersides plain, the thinly carved stone well polished and of even colour.
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China: Qianlong, [ 1736-95 ]
Height: 5.5/8in [ 14.3cm ]
A chicken bone jade bottle vase with tubular handles, the cylindrical body rising from a short foot to a narrow neck with rolled rim, the central band carved in low relief with taotie masks, the neck with smaller, similar examples.
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China: Qianlong [ 1736-95 ]
Length: 4.in [ 10.2cm ]
A white jade brushwasher in the form of a peach, the exterior carved in deep relief with a single bat grasping a swastika emblem suspended from a silk tassel, amongst fruiting and leafy peach branches issuing from the side of the vessel, with slight russet inclusions.
China: Qianlong [ 1736-95 ]
Width: .in [ cm ]
A Moghul style white jade 'water chestnut' brushwasher.
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China: Qianlong, (1736-95)
Height: 6 1/4in [ 15.8cm ]
A white jade group of two catfish leaping from crested waves, one grasping a silk tassel suspending a musical stone, the other holding a chrysanthemum spray, the reverse with further swirling waves, the details finely rendered, the stone of an even tone.
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China: Qianlong, [ 1736-95 ]
Length: 9.1/8in [ 23.2cm ]
A small white jade ruyi sceptre, the curved shaft rising to a shaped head, carved in low relief with two bats surrounding a shou character below a swastika emblem, the handle plain, the stone of good even tone and polish, attached brocade silk cord with coral beads.
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China: Qianlong, (1736-95)
Length: 4.5/8in [ 11.7cm ]
A rare white jade brush of tapering form, surmounted by a Mandarin holding a ruyi sceptre in his right arm, dressed in a long sleeved coat and wearing a hat above a long queue stretching down his back, the shaft carved with flowering prunus branches between bands of rope-twist and vertical lines.
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China: Qianlong, (1736-95)
Height: 4.3/4in [ 11.7cm ]
A white and russet jade group depicting a Central Asian figure holding a goad, clambering on the back of a caparisoned elephant, the simulated silk cloth draped over the back of the elephant carved in low relief with bats amongst cloud scrolls above rocks issuing from waves, the details well defined.