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A jade piece that is shaped into a semicircle with the center cut out. It is green in color. There are swirling carved lines throughout the piece that make a pattern. The left and right edges of the piece are horizontal and irregularly-cut with a small ho

Jade 'Huang' Disk Segment with Notched Ends

Chinese

An off-white jade disk with a circle cut out in the middle. There are carved lines that create a broad, swirling pattern throughout the piece. There is some red discoloration.

Jade Convex Disk or Spinning Whorl

Chinese

Garment Hook with Animal Head and Decoration of a Winged Dragon

Garment Hook with Animal Head and Decoration of a Winged Dragon

Chinese

Dragon-Headed Garment Hook

Dragon-Headed Garment Hook

Chinese

Jade Dragon Silhouette

Jade Dragon Silhouette

Chinese

A fairly flat stylized object of a tiger, crouching down with its nose near the ground, its mouth open.

Jade Tiger (one of a pair)

Chinese

A fairly flat stylized object of a tiger, crouching down with its nose near the ground, its mouth open.　　

Jade Tiger (one of a pair)

Chinese

A green-blue jade statuette of a kneeling man sitting upright and facing the viewer. His hands are together on his lap. His body is decorated with an engraved swirling pattern and has a small flat hat on his head.

Jade Statuette of a Kneeling Man

Chinese

Resembling an S-shaped curve on its side, this ornament object is a combination of dragon, snake, and bird.

Jade Configuration of Dragon, Bird, and Snake

Chinese

A jade pendant of a standing person that is pale green and brown in color and has been carved with fine lines to outline a wrapped robe, belt, draped sleeves, their face, and short hair. The head is large and round.

Jade Pendant in the Shape of a Human Figure

Chinese

An off-white jade disk with a circle cut out in the middle. There is an outer ring that has a pattern of small circles. The inner ring has many curved forms with their negative spaces cut out.

Ornate Jade Disk in Openwork with Decoration of Dragons and Birds

Chinese

A jade disk that has been cut into a thin ring. It is dark brown in color with some pale yellow along the center-left. It has been engraved with swirling lines that make a pattern throughout the piece.

Ornate Jade Ring-Disk

Chinese

A jade sculpture that is long in shape with the left side being wide with rounded engraved details and the right side coming to a narrow, blunt edge. It is colored golden yellow. The sculpture has a crack diagonally down the middle with red coloring around it.

Elongated Jade Bird Figure

Chinese

A jade sculpture of a silhouette of a fish that is long and thin in shape. There are engraved lines to show details of fins, a circle for an eye, and a hole through the nose.

Elongated Jade Fish Silhouette

Chinese

A jade tablet that is oblong and curved in shape with irregular, geometric edges. It is pale yellow in color with some orange coloration at the bottom. There are curved engraved lines on the piece that outline the shape of a bird that looks to the left.

Notched Jade Tablet with Incised Bird Figure

Chinese

Flat carved pendant of a small bird figure in profile, with carved lines to describe winged details.　

Jade Bird Figure

Chinese

A flat jade sculpture that is long in shape with the left side being wide with rounded engraved details and the right side coming to a narrow, blunt edge. It is colored light yellow-green.

Elongated Jade Bird Figure

Chinese

Jade Dragon Silhouette

Jade Dragon Silhouette

Chinese

Dragon inspired flat ornament; its head is on the right as it’s turned back to look to the left.　

Jade Dragon and Bird Configuration

Chinese

A small vertical ornament that’s slightly wider at the top, with a bird figure carved into it.　

Crenelated Jade Tablet with Bird Decor

Chinese

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