Lot 429
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A FINELY CARVED WHITE AND RUSSET JADE THUMB RING
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A FINELY CARVED WHITE AND RUSSET JADE THUMB RING

18TH CENTURY

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A FINELY CARVED WHITE AND RUSSET JADE THUMB RING
18TH CENTURY
Carved in shallow relief with a scholar seated at his desk in front of an open window in a brick building, his attendant seated outside holding a fan and tending to a kettle set on a brazier, the scene set within a hilly landscape with a plantain and paulownia tree, the translucent stone of white tone with some russet mottling
1 1/16 in. (2.6 in.) high
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Lot Essay

Compare the white and russet jade thumb ring carved with a similar scene of a figure seated at an open window of a small building in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 42 - Jadeware (III), Hong Kong, 1996, pp. 230-1, no. 187. A rubbing of the thumb ring on p. 231 shows that the ring is inscribed with a poetic inscription followed by Qianlong yuti (Imperial composition of the Qianlong Emperor).

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