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A GREY AND RUSSET JADE ‘DEER AND EGRET’ RETICULATED
PLAQUE
Yuan Dynasty
The oval plaque exquisitely cared and pierced with elaborate foliage
and trees issuing auspicious lingzhi fungus, a parrot perched high
above a deer and egret, the stone of warm beige tone with some
russet inclusions.
9.8cm (3 7/8in) wide.
£4,000 - 6,000
CNY36,000 - 53,000
元 青灰玉鏤雕鹿鶴同春紋牌

Provenance: A UK private collection

來源：英國私人收藏

The word for deer, lu, is a homophone for emoluments, while the word
for juniper is bai, which sounds like the word for hundred. Put together,
they form the phrase bai lu, ‘One hundred emoluments’, thereby
wishing that ‘Heaven grant the owner one hundred emoluments’, Shou
tian bai lu.

See a related white jade belt ornament with design of crane and deer,
Song dynasty, illustrated in the Compendium of Collections in the
Palace Museum: Jade, 5, Beijing, 2011, p.175, no.191.

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A PALE GREEN JADE OPENWORK ‘SPRING WATER’ OVAL
PLAQUE
Ming Dynasty
Intricately carved in openwork and in layered relief to depict a goose
in flight amidst long stems of lotus and lotus blossoms, its long neck
curving upward from beneath a spray of lotus, the stone of even pale
greenish-white tone.
10.4cm (4 1/8in) wide.
£3,000 - 5,000
CNY27,000 - 45,000

明 青白玉鏤雕春水紋牌

Provenance: Bonhams Hong Kong, 28 November 2011, lot 427
A UK private collection

來源：香港邦瀚斯，2011年11月28日，拍品編號427
英國私人收藏

The motif of the present plaque originated from the annual goose
hunt in the Spring conducted by the Khitan in the Liao dynasty and
the Jurchens in the Jin dynasty. Jade plaques from the Liao and Jin
periods however, usually also have a falcon used by hunters. Later
examples from the Yuan/Ming period, such as the present lot, tend not
to have a falcon. See a similar jade plaque, Yuan dynasty, illustrated
by James C.Y.Watt, Chinese Jades from the Collection of the Seattle
Art Museum, Seattle, 1989, no.40; and another in the British Museum,
London, illustrated by J.Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to
the Qing, London, 1995, p.335, fig.1. Another very similar jade plaque
of a goose, Yuan/Ming dynasty, is illustrated by Spink & Son Ltd., 230
Chinese Jade: An Important Private Collection, London, 1991, p.39,
no.78.

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