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2018 Autumn Auctions
Exquisite Beauty of Archaic Jade Carvings from a San Francisco Private Collection

1073
An Archaic Jade 'Cicada' Carving(Warring States Period (475 - 221 BC))

5.1 cm. (2 in.) high


The insect is carved to the top with crisp grooves to delineate the head, pronounced eyes and wings, while the underside is decorated with fine lines to depict the ribbed abdomen, the mottled stone with even brownish speckles all around.

Provenance: An American private collection, acquired in the 1980s

Price estimate:
HKD: 20,000 - 30,000
USD: 2,550 - 3,820

Auction Result:
HKD : 29,500

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