JADE PLAQUE, MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY

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A WHITE JADE-MOUNTED GILT-METAL BELT FITTING
JADE PLAQUE, MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY
The rectangular fitting is inset with a white jade plaque carved in openwork with a chilong slithering amidst scrolling lingzhi stems within an integral border of concave beads, and the gilt-metal mount has engraved decoration and attachment loops on the reverse. Together with a jade-inset gilt-metal belt buckle, circa 1700, a white jade oblong plaque carved in openwork with a coiled dragon is in the center and pale green jadeite cabochons are at the ends of the gilt-metal buckle, which has a loop and a hook on the engraved reverse.
3 and 3½ in. (7.5 and 9 cm.) wide (2)

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Items which contain rubies or jadeite originating in Burma (Myanmar) may not be imported into the U.S. As a convenience to our bidders, we have marked these lots with Y. Please be advised that a purchaser¹s inability to import any such item into the U.S. or any other country shall not constitute grounds for non-payment or cancellation of the sale. With respect to items that contain any other types of gemstones originating in Burma (e.g., sapphires), such items may be imported into the U.S., provided that the gemstones have been mounted or incorporated into jewellery outside of Burma and provided that the setting is not of a temporary nature (e.g., a string).

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Lot Essay

The white jade, openwork dragon plaque of the first fitting is similar to one in the British Museum, illustrated by J. Rawson in Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 342, no. 25:23, where it is dated 16th century.

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