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A WHITE JADE RECTANGULAR ‘HOBBY-HORSE’ PLAQUE
18th century
One side carved with a boy riding a hobby-horse within a beaded
board in low relief, the reverse carved with four characters reading
jixiang ruyi in a similar beaded board, all under a stylised butterfly head,
the stone of milky-white tone.
5.5cm (2 1/8in) long.
HKD200,000 - 300,000
US$26,000 - 39,000
十八世紀 白玉吉祥如意牌
The theme of a boy riding a hobby horse comprises part of the popular
‘boys at play’ scene, which is a symbol of the eager wish for the
education and advancement of many sons in Confucian China, further
emphasised by the hobby horse he rides (mashang) which is a pun for
‘immediately’ or ‘soon’.
白玉質，頭作變體蝴蝶形，牌邊起棱線，卷做簡體如意雲紋，牌心一面減
地淺浮雕童子騎木馬，另一面雕篆書「吉祥如意」四字，玉質白潤均勻。
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