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A RARE WHITE JADE RETICULATED ‘WINGED
177 DRAGON’ PLAQUE
200 | BONHAMS Ming Dynasty
The evenly-toned white jade crisply carved with
a writhing winged dragon flanked by leafy lingzhi
sprigs, all on a finely reticulated ground of foliate
scrolls.
7cm (2 3/4in) wide

£10,000 - 15,000
HK$110,000 - 160,000 CNY92,000 - 140,000

明 白玉鏤雕應龍穿雲紋飾件

Compare with a similar jade plaque dated to the
Ming dynasty illustrated by W.Fong and J.Watt,
Possessing the Past: Treasures from the National
Palace Museum, New York, 1996, p. 61, no.25.
See also H.Li and M.Knight, Power and Glory: Court
Arts of China’s Ming Dynasty, San Francisco, 2016,
pp.26-29, no.1, for a set of belt ornaments with
similar dragons amid clouds, excavated from the
tomb of Wang Xingzu (buried in AD1371) outside the
Central Gate, Nanjing, and now in the collection of
the Nanjing Municipal Museum.

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A FINE WHITE JADE ‘DOUBLE BAT’ PENDANT
Qianlong
Well carved as two bats facing each other with
spreading wings entwined and coiling around,
the stone of even white tone with some minor
inclusions.
6.5cm (2 1/2in) wide

£9,000 - 12,000
HK$99,000 - 130,000 CNY83,000 - 110,000

清乾隆 白玉雙福臨門飾件

A pair (shuang 雙) of bats (fu 蝠) is a rebus for
‘double blessings’ (shuangfu 雙福).