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PROPERTY FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND*
A MOTTLED GREEN JADEITE TREE-TRUNK VASE
19TH CENTURY
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A MOTTLED GREEN JADEITE TREE-TRUNK VASE
19th century
Well carved and hollowed as the trunk of a prunus tree, with a pair of long-tailed birds perched in the branches, and lingzhi fungus and wannianqing sprouting from the rocks at the base, the stone of mottled brownish-green and emerald-green color
7 1/8in. (18.1cm.) high
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This lot is exempt from Sales Tax.
Lot Essay
The combination of wannianqing and lingzhi fungus forms the rebus, 'May your wishes come true for the next ten thousand years' or 'ten thousand things to your wish'.