A SMALL IMPERIALLY-INSCRIBED PALE CELADON JADE MOUNTAIN GROUP
A SMALL IMPERIALLY-INSCRIBED PALE CELADON JADE MOUNTAIN GROUP

18TH CENTURY

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A SMALL IMPERIALLY-INSCRIBED PALE CELADON JADE MOUNTAIN GROUP
18TH CENTURY
Finely carved to one side with a seated sage dressed in long flowing robes below a rocky overhang, to his side a long incised inscription, the reverse with a paulownia tree growing from craggy rocks, the stone of an even pale tone
4¾ in. (11 cm.) high, carved wood stand

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Louise Britain
Louise Britain

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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'.