PF1217

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Lot 89
  • 89

Ensemble comprenant une fibule et trois groupes sculptés en jade céladon pâle Chine, dynastie Qing, XVIIIE siècle

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
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Description

  • jade
la fibule terminée par une tête de dragon féroce et ornée d'un dragon chilong, un groupe figurant des litchis dans leur branchage, un autre un chilong sur une feuille, le dernier figurant un crapaud se dissimulant sur une feuille de nénuphar (4)

Condition

The belt-hook in good overall condition with a very tiny nick behind one ear of the dragon ; The toad pendant is in good overall condition with a small chip to the stem of the lotus near the hole of the pendant ; The fruit carving and the chilong pendant are in good overall condition. The actual color of the four carvings is more celadon, less white, than the catalogue illustration would suggest.
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