Page 170 - Bonhams Asian and Chinese Art London Nov. 2019

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513 Y
A CARVED WHITE JADE PLAQUE
19th century
Depicting an equestrian hunter riding along a rocky path before a
pavilion, beneath a confronting chilong frieze, the reverse inscribed
in shallow relief with a poem and a seal, fitted hongmu stand. 7cm
(2.3/4in) x 5.5cm (2.1/8in).

£3,000 - 5,000
HK$29,000 - 49,000
CNY27,000 - 44,000

Provenance
An English private Collection.

The reverse inscribed:
九茅仙圃云中採 - Jiǔ máoxiānpǔ yún zhōng Cǎi
513 女色天出日下集 - Nǚ sè tiān chū rì xià jí
and sealed: 文 玩 Wén Wán.
514
A CARVED PALE GREEN JADE ‘QILIN’ DOUBLE-SIDED
PLAQUE
18th/19th century
The flat plaque carved with a crouching qilin seated with its head
turned back and eyes in an intent gaze beneath its horns, beside a
beribboned scroll and a flying bat, the details of its scales and bushy
tail finely rendered, the polished stone of an even pale tone with very
few cloudy and russet inclusions. 8.3cm (3 5/8in) wide.
£800 - 1,200
HK$7,800 - 12,000
CNY7,100 - 11,000

Provenance
A distinguished Italian private collection formed circa 1930s-1940s,
and thence by descent

The important Italian collector lived and worked in Shanghai between
1932 and 1936, as representative of his Italian company and in
1937, following the Sino-Japanese war, was transferred to Dalian in
Southern Manchuria. After a brief period spent in Italy in 1938, he
returned to Shanghai where he lived between 1939 and 1940. He
then moved to Beijing where he lived between 1941 and 1946 and
formed the vast majority of his collection of Chinese Art.

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