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8017 PROPERTY OF AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A PALE GREEN JADE BELT PLAQUE
8019 Tang dynasty
16 | BONHAMS The nearly square plaque is carved on the front face with a musician
seated on a fringed mat, with fabric scarves swirling about the figure,
the reverse pierced with holes for attachment, the pale green stone is
of whitish hue.
1 7/8in (4.5cm) wide
US$4,000 - 6,000
唐 青白玉雕樂師紋腰牌
For a similar square jade belt plaque decorated with an image of a
musician, in this case carved from black jade, see an example at the
Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, United Kingdom (manager ID 487).
Four related examples, originally in the Feng Wen Tang Collection,
were sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 7 October 2014, lot 148, sale
3329. A set of ten belt plaques of this type is in the collection of
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (accession number
1992.165.22a–j), and they are described as depicting dancers and
musicians of Central Asian origin, probably of Kizil ethnicity.
PROPERTY OF VARIOUS OWNERS
8018
A RETICULATED GREY JADE PLAQUE
Yuan dynasty
The softly gleaming grey stone with fine russet striations, intricately
carved with a smiling man in a long sleeved robe and trousers striding
purposefully through a spray of lingzhi fungus and flowing sashes, the
reverse unfinished.
2 3/4in (7cm) long
US$10,000 - 15,000
元 灰玉鏤雕仙人靈芝紋牌
8019
A CARVED JADE CENSER, DING
Ming dynasty
Of archaistic rectangular ding form, the two shorter sides carved
with two looped handles, the body deeply undercut with seal script
characters in horizontal panels above studded bosses separated by
protruding flanges, the gently splayed legs decorated in archaistic
animal head designs; the grayish matrix marked with light brown
streaks.
6in (15cm) high
US$15,000 - 20,000
明 青白玉乳釘紋沖天耳四足方鼎
Provenance
Private Texas Collection
