Pendants
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Woolley & Wallis
Wiltshire, Royaume-Uni
Tuesday 20 Apr at - 10:00 (BST)
Woolley & Wallis
Wiltshire, Royaume-Uni
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A PINK AND GREEN TOURMALINE ‘PENSIVE MONKEY’ PENDANT, LATE QING DYNASTY
China, 19 th – early 20 th century. The bicolored stone carved as a seated monkey resting its head in one hand and scratching its head with the other, beside a potted plant, both utilizing the yellowish green section of the stone. The rest of the dep…
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AN AMBER AND JADEITE COURT NECKLACE (CHAO ZHU), QING DYNASTY
China, 19 th century. The 108 translucent golden brown amber beads are divided by four pale green jadeite fotou (Buddha heads), one of them connected to a gourd shaped fotouta (Buddha head stupa), supporting a silk cord tassel intersected by a flatte…
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A CARNELIAN ‘ROOSTER’ PENDANT, 1ST MILLENNIUM AD
China. Carved as a rooster with a pierced three pointed comb, eyes, beak, wings, and plumage neatly incised. The stone of an appealing, warm cinnabar tone with cloudy white inclusions. Provenance: German private collection. Condition: Small nicks, lo…
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A DARK GREEN JADE OPENWORK ‘CLOUD-SCROLL’ PENDANT, GOUYUN, HONGSHAN CULTURE
China, c. 4500 3000 BC. The opaque stone of a dark green, almost black tone with paler green shadings as well as cloudy white and russet inclusions, the pendant with a prominent central scroll and protuberances at the corners reminiscent of phoenix h…
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A WHITE AND RUSSET JADE ‘DOUBLE DRAGON’ PENDANT, HUANG, LATE EASTERN ZHOU TO HAN
China, 770 BC to 220 AD. Of arched form, each side of the upper section finely carved in relief with comma spirals, the lower section carved in symmetrical openwork with confronting dragons flanking a flaming pearl, terminating with a pair of dragon …
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A BLACK AND WHITE JADE ‘ARCHAISTIC’ AXE-FORM OPENWORK PENDANT, 18 CENTURY
China. Finely carved in the form of an axe form bell detailed with a band of archaistic dragons below neatly incised ruyi heads forming a beast head, all surmounted by a bi disk and a pair of confronting chilong. The translucent stone of an attractiv…
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A WHITE AND GRAY JADE ‘TWO CATS’ PENDANT, QING DYNASTY
China, 18 th century. The group is cleverly carved and pierced using the natural colors of the translucent stone to depict a recumbent cat with a much smaller cat clambering around its tail. When worn as a pendant, the carving looks like the smaller …
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A WHITE JADE OPENWORK ‘CHILONG’ PENDANT, QIANLONG PERIOD
China, 1735 1796. Finely carved in the form of an oval pendant with a pierced aperture at the center, one side carved in relief with a large sinuous chilong with bifurcated tail clambering up the pendant and through the aperture, the pure and translu…
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A WHITE JADE ‘FUGUI’ PLAQUE, MID-QING TO REPUBLIC
China, 1750 1949. Of rectangular form, finely carved to one side in relief with two sinuously coiled chilong with bifurcated tails chasing a flaming pearl, the other side inscribed with a two character seal mark, all between a ruyi scroll design. The…
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SIX JADE ‘BUDDHIST LION’ SEALS, MID-QING TO REPUBLIC
China, late 18 th to early 20 th century. Three seals of circular form, two of rectangular shape, and the sixth of square section, each surmounted by a Buddhist lion, five with a central piercing allowing for suspension as a pendant. Three of the sea…
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FIVE HARDSTONE SEALS WITH ANIMALS, MID-QING TO REPUBLIC
China, late 18 th to early 20 th century. Two seals of circular form, one carved as a cicada and pierced through the center, the other surmounted by a Buddhist lion with the furcated tail forming a loop for suspension as a pendant. Three seals of squ…
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A LOT OF FOUR SEALS, QING DYNASTY TO REPUBLIC PERIOD
China, 17 th century (the ivory seal) and late 18 th to early 20 th century (the other seals). An ivory seal of lobed oval form carved as an eggplant with a curved stem. A bone netsuke of columnal cylindrical shape carved as a parasol with a ruyi hea…
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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘FLORAL’ BOWL, DAOGUANG BING WU MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
China, dated 1846. The rounded sides rising from a straight foot to a wide flared rim, decorated around the exterior in deep shades of cobalt with four rosette medallions within a ruyi petal border, each enclosing one of the four characters shan gao …
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A HEXAGONAL PEWTER-ENCASED AND JADE-INSET YIXING TEAPOT AND COVER, QING
China, 19 th century. Of hexagonal form, supported on four short feet, the sides incised with floral and foliate designs as well as two poems, inset with jade pieces forming the tapering spout, loop handle, and the square finial of the cover, the tra…
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