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Auspicious AGATE Assemblage

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Asian Antiques Start Price:1,500.00 USD Estimated At:2,200.00 - 3,000.00 USD
Auspicious AGATE Assemblage
Online Auction only, with advance bids accepted at iCollector and at the Gallery. No live bidding
in the Gallery, and tie bids go to the earliest bidder. All proceeds will go 100% to the World Peace Foundation Building Fund of Hadley, MA.
Important and rare group of Agate pendants from the Warring States period. Similar examples are shown in several references and these are typical. The ring is 2-1/2" across, the two stylized Flying Dragons are 3-1/8" and 2-7/8" respectively, with the longer one having been broken and rejoined by a previous owner. Beautiful near-transparent agate was carefully selected for these....which may always have been together (I have left them as I acquired them). See: CHOW, Roger, Catalog entries #76-80, referenced below at lot 147. The clear crystal beads are old, but only one is "of the period". All highly desirable amulets from the tribals of North China.