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US$2,500-4,000
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AN ANTIQUE NEPHRITE "THREE FRIENDS OF WINTER" PENDENT NECKLACE
The thick oval plaque pierced and carved as a pine tree issuing gnarled branches of pine and flowering prunus, its trunk lightly incised with bamboo stalks, symbolising the three friends of winter, the reverse inscribed yu shou wan nian, longevity of ten thousand years, suspended from a black cord necklace with nephrite double-hoop spacers, 18th/19th century
Pendant 54.80 x 47.21 x 7.40 mm.
The thick oval plaque pierced and carved as a pine tree issuing gnarled branches of pine and flowering prunus, its trunk lightly incised with bamboo stalks, symbolising the three friends of winter, the reverse inscribed yu shou wan nian, longevity of ten thousand years, suspended from a black cord necklace with nephrite double-hoop spacers, 18th/19th century
Pendant 54.80 x 47.21 x 7.40 mm.