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Wong #4.
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One Small, Flat Jade Tablet. Chou. Chinese.

Oblong and slender, with curving top and concave base. One surface covered with three vertical rows of twenty-eight incised characters Opposite surface shows deep areasof rock removal near base. Color mottled light gray and green with whitish earth deposit and small areas of silver. 
Height, 6 11/16": width, 2".
In wooden box.

Purchased from K. T. Wong of Shanghai, at New York, Special Voucher #29 January, 1918,    200.00

Wong #5. 
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One Flat, Decorated Jade Tablet. Han. Chinese.

Oblong,-with a reticulated, animalistic design on top - the animal's tail continuing down one edge in scroll design and terminating in a smalleranimal. Central horizontal band one and one-eighth inches wide, carved on both sides of object with ogre head in low relief. Surface roughened with pitted areas. Color golden and russet brown mottled with white.
Height over all, 9 7/16": width over all, 2 1/4".
In wooden box.

Purchased from K. T. Wong of Shanghai, at New York,
Special Voucher #29 January, 1918,   200.00 

Wong #6.
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One Jade Tsung. Chou. Chinese

A cylindrical object of mirror-like surface, the outer surface sides being formed by right-angled corner shapes, grooved longitudinally at each corner. The rounded cylinder projects at each end beyond square corners and extends through centre of each outer plane, in a depressed channel. Predominating colors brown, gray, black and white, a definite area of white at one end of object, with veinings of it running through the darker portions, areas of silvery earth deposit.
Height, 4 1/16 ; diameter of circular projection (average), 2 3/8".
Wood stand; in wooden box.


Purchased from K. T. Wong of Shanghai, at New York,
Special Voucher #29 January, 1918,    250.00

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