A WHITE AND RUSSET JADE ‘CHILONG’ TWO-PART BELT BUCKLE AND A WHITE JADE ‘FRUIT’ ORNAMENT QING DYNASTY, 17TH AND 18TH CENTURY the buckle with each section well worked in high relief with a clambering chilong, its sinuous body terminating in a furcated curling tail, one half of the buckle with a dragon-head hook, the other with an accommodating elliptical aperture, the underside of each with a raised circular panel, the white stone with faint russet highlights; the ornament worked and reticulated with a lobed border enclosing a globular fruit and curling leaves, the translucent white stone with a russet patch to one side 9 and 4 cm, 3 1/2 and 1 1/2 in.
A WHITE AND RUSSET JADE ‘CHILONG’ TWO-PART BELT BUCKLE AND A WHITE JADE ‘FRUIT’ ORNAMENT QING DYNASTY, 17TH AND 18TH CENTURY the buckle with each section well worked in high relief with a clambering chilong, its sinuous body terminating in a furcated curling tail, one half of the buckle with a dragon-head hook, the other with an accommodating elliptical aperture, the underside of each with a raised circular panel, the white stone with faint russet highlights; the ornament worked and reticulated with a lobed border enclosing a globular fruit and curling leaves, the translucent white stone with a russet patch to one side 9 and 4 cm, 3 1/2 and 1 1/2 in.
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