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A WHITE JADE ‘FOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS’
PAPERWEIGHT
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

skilfully worked to depict the ‘four accomplishments’, the
seven-stringed qin rendered within a brocade sash loosely
tied with a ribbon and partially exposing the instrument, next
to a weiqi board beneath an opened book, all wrapped within
a scroll painting incised on the reverse with prunus blooms,
bamboo shoots and jagged cliffs, next to an inscription reading
Suihan sanyou tu (‘Picture of the Three Friends of Winter’)
followed by two seal marks reading shen and pin (‘divine
class’), the paperweight further decorated with a gnarled pine
branch, the lustrous white stone with faint russet inclusions
7.1 cm, 2¾ in.

Compare a jade carving worked with a similar motif, illustrated
in the exhibition, Arts from the Scholar’s Studio, Fung Ping
Shan Museum, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1986, pp.
236-237, cat. no. 226 and sold in these rooms, 8th October
2010, lot 2196, from the Water, Pine and Stone Retreat
Collection.

HK$ 280,000-350,000
US$ 36,100-45,100

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