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A RARE PAIR OF LARGE SPINACH-GREEN JADE CEREMONIAL TABLETS
Lot 89

A RARE PAIR OF LARGE SPINACH-GREEN JADE CEREMONIAL TABLETS

QIANLONG INCISED SEVEN-CHARACTER MARKS IN VERTICAL LINES AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)

Closed10 May 2011

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A RARE PAIR OF LARGE SPINACH-GREEN JADE CEREMONIAL TABLETS
QIANLONG INCISED SEVEN-CHARACTER MARKS IN VERTICAL LINES AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)
The tapering tablets with a central raised rib and carved with a tall central jagged rock surrounded by and raising from crashing crested waves, all below a Daoist star map, the stone of an even dark green tone
19 7/8 in. (50.5 cm.) high, wood stands (2)

Purchased from Louis Joseph, London, 25 March 1957.

Specialist note

A single large dark green jade gui from The Palace Museum, Beijing is illustrated in, Jadeware (III), The Complete Collection of Treasures of The Palace Museum, Hong Kong 1995, p. 153 & 154, no. 123.

The current lot is not only larger in length and width, but the thickness is a remarkable 4 cm., as opposed to the example in The Palace Collection mentioned above which is 1.1 cm. thick.