LATE MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY

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.