A SMALL FINELY CARVED PALE GREY AGATE PENDANT SUZHOU SCHOOL, 18TH-19TH CENTURY The pendant is carved as a peach borne on an openwork branch carved at the top with a dragonfly with spread wings and to one side with a small monkey facing a small bat, all of their eyes picked out in the dark brown markings in the stone, as is the four-character phrase, fu zhi xin ling (may your mind be clear when blessings arrive) followed by two illegible characters, possibly a cyclical date or signature, carved on a flattened peach on the reverse. 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm.) wide Provenance Lizzadro Collection, Elmhurst, Illinois, acquired prior to 1960.
A SMALL FINELY CARVED PALE GREY AGATE PENDANT SUZHOU SCHOOL, 18TH-19TH CENTURY The pendant is carved as a peach borne on an openwork branch carved at the top with a dragonfly with spread wings and to one side with a small monkey facing a small bat, all of their eyes picked out in the dark brown markings in the stone, as is the four-character phrase, fu zhi xin ling (may your mind be clear when blessings arrive) followed by two illegible characters, possibly a cyclical date or signature, carved on a flattened peach on the reverse. 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm.) wide Provenance Lizzadro Collection, Elmhurst, Illinois, acquired prior to 1960.
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