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19TH CENTURY
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TWO CHINESE WHITE JADE PLAQUES
19TH CENTURY
The first of oval form carved with Li Bai toasting the moon, the reverse with an adaptation of the poet's "Drinking Alone with the Moon"; the second carved with two pomegranates, the reverse inscribed liu kai bai zi, which can be translated as "the pomegranate opens a hundred sons"
The larger 2.3/8 in. (6 cm.) long
19TH CENTURY
The first of oval form carved with Li Bai toasting the moon, the reverse with an adaptation of the poet's "Drinking Alone with the Moon"; the second carved with two pomegranates, the reverse inscribed liu kai bai zi, which can be translated as "the pomegranate opens a hundred sons"
The larger 2.3/8 in. (6 cm.) long
Provenance
Lizzadro Collection, Chicago, Illinois, acquired prior to 1960.
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