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A GROUP OF FIVE WHITE JADE RINGS
Qing dynasty
The first carved on one side with monkeys and a peach tree; the
second with an incised design of a floral spray accompanied by
a poem in lishu, both the image and characters highlighted with
gilding; the third carved with archaic characters; the fourth carved
with archaistic patterns in low relief; the fifth carved with a continuous
landscape with a figure and crane.
1 3/8in (3.5cm) diameter of thew largest ring
US$7,000 - 9,000
清 白玉板指五只
The incised poem reads 一種寒英性獨柔露華拂檻最風流長生殿裏癡
情重
既占春還不讓秋, and is recorded in the Qianlong emperor’s Yu Zhi Shi
San Ji, Juan 3 御製詩三集, 卷三.
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