AN UNUSUAL WHITE JADE RUYI-FORM OPENWORK PLAQUE

LATE MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL WHITE JADE RUYI-FORM OPENWORK PLAQUE
LATE MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY
The slightly convex plaque is well carved in relief with two crossed trumpet-shaped flowers or lingzhi borne on leafy stems against a ground of fine openwork fret pattern. There is some very fine black speckling in some areas of the semi-translucent stone.
4 3/8 in. (11 cm.) wide

Provenance

Lizzadro Collection, Chicago, Illinois, acquired prior to 1960.

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Lot Essay

The same types of crossed flowers are carved on a set of white jade openwork belt plaques dated to the Ming dynasty in the Qing Court collection and illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 41 - Jade (II), Hong Kong, 1995, pp. 206-7, no. 167. Fret pattern similar to that of the present plaque can be seen as the ground of a small white jade belt plaque, which is dated late Ming dynasty, 16th-17th century, and illustrated by J. Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 343, no. 25.28.

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