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Lot 96
A SMALL IMPERIALLY-INSCRIBED PALE CELADON JADE MOUNTAIN GROUP
18TH CENTURY
Closed10 May 2011
Price Realised
GBP 91,250
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Specialist note
The long poem may be translated as:
'Imperial poem
Nine years in meditation could be an eternity;
Mortals only speak of the importance of a persistent mind;
If only they understood that scriptures are there merely to shade the sun;
They would not be studying them with such effort, like trying to pierce through oxhide'.
'Imperial poem
Nine years in meditation could be an eternity;
Mortals only speak of the importance of a persistent mind;
If only they understood that scriptures are there merely to shade the sun;
They would not be studying them with such effort, like trying to pierce through oxhide'.