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A GILT METAL BOX WITH INSET JADE PLAQUE A CELADON JADE PLAQUE
Ming Dynasty, the plaque 18th Century
A celadon jade openwork plaque carved as a flying goose among A circular form plaque, carved in low relief, one side with three
lotus, the plaque set into the lid of a hinged gilt metal box, the rams, reversed with an inscription in seal script reading San Yang
underside of the cover and exterior walls with chased decoration of Kai Tai, referencing the obverse, the terminal head with clouds and
immortal attributes against ruyi form clouds. a pierced opening.
3 3/4in (9.5cm) across 2in (5cm) high

$4,000 - 6,000 $1,000 - 1,500
嵌明代青白玉鏤雕仙鶴荷花紋鎏金蓋盒 十八世紀 三羊開泰青玉牌

For another Yuan or Ming plaque of the same subject, see Jessica For a plaque of this type with a depiction to one side and an
Rawson, Chinese Jades from the Neolithic to the Qing, British explanatory seal inscription to the other extolling the virtues of the
Museum, London, 1995, p. 335, fig. 1. scene depicted, see Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic
to the Qing, British Museum, London, 1995, pp. 346-347, no. 25:34
For an earlier oval plaque depicting a goose set against a reticulated (front and back).
lotus backdrop, see Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection
of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, p.46, no.43. It Three rams or goats (sanyang) together with a rising sun (taiyang)
is dated to the Jin-Yuan dynasty (1115-1368). Another similar is form the rebus ‘three young beget prosperity’ or Prosperity in the
illustrated by James Watt, Chinese Jades from the Collection of the springtime’ (sanyang kaitai).
Seattle Art Museum, 1988, p. 65, no. 40.

A jade plaque carved with the same subject from the Xi’an Municipal
Administrative Committee of Cultural Relics is illustrated by Li Bingwu
in National Treasure Collection of Rare Cultural Relics of Shaanxi
Province, 1999, pp.196-197. Another more similar example was sold
at Christie’s New York, 14/15 September 2017, lot 1015.

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