QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A FINELY CARVED WHITE JADE ARCHAISTIC PLAQUE
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
Well carved in openwork as a circular disc enclosing two pairs of archaistic birds surrounding a circular center and confronted on the last two characters of the phrase, chang yi zi zun (blessings for future generations), the first two characters incorporated into the upper section where they are framed by the conjoined, cord-entwined, scrolling bodies of two confronted dragons, the semi-translucent stone of even white tone
5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm.) long

Provenance

Acquired in 1980.

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Lot Essay

Compare the white jade plaque of the same form and design, inscribed with a Qianlong reign mark and inventory number, in the Qing Court collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Jadeware, vol. III, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 127. Compare, also, the jade plaque with imperial mark and series number from the Oscar Raphael Collection, now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England, and illustrated by James C.S. Lin, "The Collection of Qing Dynasty Jades in the Fitzwilliam Collection," Arts of Asia Magazine, May-June 2010, pp. 111-24, no. 14. Another similar plaque was included in the S. Marchant & Son exhibition, Post-Archaic Chinese Jades, June 1995, no. 51.

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