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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT ASIAN COLLECTION 清乾隆

AN EXTREMELY RARE LARGE 白玉鏤空童子

IMPERIAL WHITE AND 「甲子萬年」珮
RUSSET JADE ‘CALENDAR’ 《乾隆御製》款

PLAQUE 來源：
香港蘇富比2003年10月26日，編號39
YUZHI MARK AND PERIOD OF
QIANLONG

the oval plaque skilfully worked with a central elongated
aperture enclosing Yuncai tongzi (Boy of wealth), the figure
rendered in openwork and depicted holding a circular ring and
a gold nugget, the front side of the plaque decorated in low
relief with the Ten Heavenly Stems in seal script encircling the
aperture, the reverse incised with the Twelve Earthly Branches
in regular script, all surmounted by a crouching demon figure,
possibly a garuda, amidst scrolling clouds, above a ferocious
scaly dragon emerging from swirling clouds at the base, the
sides inscribed with a Qianlong yuzhi mark and an inscription
reading Jiazi wannian (‘Ten thousand years of the jiazi cyclical
year’), the smoothly polished stone of an even white colour
with warm russet patches and veining
19.5 cm, 7⅝ in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 26th October 2003, lot 39.

HK$ 2,000,000-3,000,000
US$ 255,000-383,000

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