Miniature landscape of coral and jadeite tree, gilt-copper Qing, and gold fish with a cloisonne enamel pedestal (a pair)
A Small Rhinoceros Horn Libation Cup
Gold Plate of the Chu State
An Elaborately-Carved White Jade Pebble Snuff Bottle |
Qing Dynasty The miniature landscape is placed on a stump-shaped cloisonné enamel pedestal with a wasp waist. The surface of the pedestal is gilded, with labyrinth patterns and upwardly and downwardly-facing lotus petals, and rosaceous flowers intertwining with lotus flowers edging the body. The predominant landscape is a tree of a coral trunk and green jade leaves erected on the pedestal. A crystal-inlaid gilded copper chime stone is hanging down from the tree, and a pink tourmaline bat is embedded in the middle of the chime stone. The bat is holding a tourmaline lotus flower plate in the mouth. Below the plate, there's a pendant of pearls. Two gold fishes of coral inlaid with deep red bee wax eyes are hanging from the two ends of the chime stone, symbolizing "surplus", as the word "fish" sounds the same as "surplus" in Chinese. A pair of pendants symbolizing "fortune and longevity" is hanging on the tree branches. "Shou" (longevity) characters, rice pears, tourmaline bottle gourds and coral beads are hanging on the protruding ears carved on the edge of the yellow tourmaline ancient coins. Under the tree, there are two lotus leaves of green jade, with pearls embedded inside. The landscape is also interspersed with five tourmaline lotus flowers, two jadeite lotus seedpods, and three ivory lotus roots. |








