A RARE SET OF THREE JADEITE 'CHILONG' BELT BUCKLES QING DYNASTY |

each skilfully worked utilising the variegated colours of the stones with the pale section forming the buckle and the vibrant section decorated in openwork with chilong, the hook rendered in the form of an archaistic chilong, facing a coiling chilong grasping in its jaws a lingzhi scroll, the other section of the buckle with an oval accommodating aperture and similarly decorated with a coiling chilong, the underside of each section with a circular knob