A PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE FIGURE OF A FEMALE IMMORTAL

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A PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE FIGURE OF A FEMALE IMMORTAL
LATE QING DYNASTY

The slender standing figure shown wearing a knotted shawl and a long skirt tied with a sash around the waist, holding the trailing end of the scarf wrapped around her arms in her left hand and one tress of her long, finely incised hair in her raised right hand, the hair further dressed with flowers below the coiled topknot, the stone of even tone
9 3/8in. (23.8cm.) high, wood stand
Literature
Stanley Charles Nott, Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages, New York, 1937, pl. CXLIV (right)