19TH CENTURY
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A WELL-CARVED WHITE JADE FIGURE OF A FEMALE MUSICIAN
19th Century
The graceful standing figure holding ribbon-tied clappers near her right shoulder, wearing a beaded necklace, full-sleeved undergarment and an overskirt with aprons in front and back, the sash around her waist hung with knotted ribbons, two of them suspending quatrefoil jade rings, her head demurely tilted and her hair partially drawn up into a bead and flower-decorated topknot and left long in back, the well-polished stone with some opaque flaws
11.1/8in. (28.2cm.) high
19th Century
The graceful standing figure holding ribbon-tied clappers near her right shoulder, wearing a beaded necklace, full-sleeved undergarment and an overskirt with aprons in front and back, the sash around her waist hung with knotted ribbons, two of them suspending quatrefoil jade rings, her head demurely tilted and her hair partially drawn up into a bead and flower-decorated topknot and left long in back, the well-polished stone with some opaque flaws
11.1/8in. (28.2cm.) high