Fine Chinese Paintings & Works of Art - 27th July 2021
Lot 94
THREE SMALL CHINESE CELADON JADE ITEMS
Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £4800
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Description
THREE SMALL CHINESE CELADON JADE ITEMS
QING DYNASTY
One carved in pale celadon jade as a shallow dish with a foliate rim, another worked in celadon jade as a bird resting by a lotus atop a large conch shell, the stone with russet mottling and inclusions, the third carving formed as twin-fish, with a flower to one side, one fish picked out in a brown section of the stone, the other in pale celadon, 9.3cm max. (3)
Provenance: formerly the collection of Mrs Jackie Somerville-Roberts. Mrs Somerville-Roberts' father Leo Clasen, from Luxembourg, was in the steel industry and formed his collection between c.1945 and 1965.