18TH-19TH CENTURY

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A WHITE JADE TABLET, GUIBI
18TH-19TH CENTURY
The bi is superimposed over a gui tablet, with two chilong flanking the tablet on the top. The front of the bi is carved with low bosses and the tablet on the same side with two bats. The reverse of the bi is carved with amaranth, and the tablet with the Eight Buddhist Emblems (bajixiang). The semi-translucent stone has some pale russet markings.
7 1/16 in. (17.9 cm.) high, hongmu stand

Provenance

Trio Pearl Company, Hong Kong, 1974.
Richard Salisbury (1924-1995) Collection, and thence by descent within the family.

Special notice

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