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A ‘CHICKEN-BONE’ JADE RECTANGULAR PLAQUE

18TH CENTURY
The thick plaque is carved on one side with a scene of a traveler holding an
umbrella accompanied by an attendant carrying a qin travelling through a
rocky landscape, and the reverse is carved with a fgure contemplating the
distant mountains from a small hut. One narrow side has a fve-character
inscription Fengxue yegui ren (Returning home on a snowy night) and the
other narrow side has a four-character inscription Huangzi bashi hao (Huang
no. 80). The opaque ivory-white jade is streaked with brownish-beige fne
lines and black striations.
6æ in. (17.1 cm.) high

$12,000-18,000

清十八世紀 玉雕風雪夜歸圖插屏

(inscriptions)

(reverse)

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