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Lot Essay
The three poetic inscriptions may be translated as:
'The flowers proudly blossom from the branches, braving the snow.
Of all the different species, those from Jiangnan are the best.
The heavens seem to favour these solitary beauties,
Sending sunlight to these early plum blossoms.'
'Of jade quality, the flowers are pure and lean,
Appreciating them in the snow, they seem transparent like ice
Unadorned under the shadows of the candle light,
They reflect the moonlight in the chilly frost.'
'Old stems alive with spring,
Flowers like jade blossom from the sparse branches.'
There is a brush pot with very similar style of carved prunus inlay to the current lot in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Bamboo, Wood, Ivory and Rhinoceros Horn Carvings, vol. 44, Hong Kong, 2002, p. 293, no.238.
'The flowers proudly blossom from the branches, braving the snow.
Of all the different species, those from Jiangnan are the best.
The heavens seem to favour these solitary beauties,
Sending sunlight to these early plum blossoms.'
'Of jade quality, the flowers are pure and lean,
Appreciating them in the snow, they seem transparent like ice
Unadorned under the shadows of the candle light,
They reflect the moonlight in the chilly frost.'
'Old stems alive with spring,
Flowers like jade blossom from the sparse branches.'
There is a brush pot with very similar style of carved prunus inlay to the current lot in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Bamboo, Wood, Ivory and Rhinoceros Horn Carvings, vol. 44, Hong Kong, 2002, p. 293, no.238.