Lot 133
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A FINE CARVED WHITE JADE HAIRPIN
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A FINE CARVED WHITE JADE HAIRPIN

18TH CENTURY

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A FINE CARVED WHITE JADE HAIRPIN
18TH CENTURY
The long tapering shaft finely carved with writhing long-tailed chilong amidst stylised clouds and two sets of inscriptions in archaic script
5¾ in. (14.5 cm.) long
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Lot Essay

The inscription may be interpreted as an ode to the colour of the stone and it seems to be signed by 'Zi Gang'.
Compare a very similar white jade hairpin, dated to the Ming dynasty in the British Museum, London, illustrated by J. Rawson in Chinese Jade From the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, no. 25:18, p. 339.

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