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A RARE AND FINELY CARVED WHITE
JADE PLAQUE
QIANLONG INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER
MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

清乾隆 白玉 來源:歐洲私人珍藏 鏤雕
「長宜子孫」牌

The upper section of the plaque is intricately
carved and pierced with the characters chang yi,
fanked by the scrolling bodies of two mythical
beasts with humanoid heads. The circular lower
section is decorated with archaistic phoenixes
surrounding the characters zi sun. One narrow side
of the circular disc is inscribed with the characters
Qianlong nian zhi, ‘made during the reign of
Qianlong’. The other side is inscribed with mo zi yi
bai qi shi wu hao, ‘the character Mo, from the series
numbered one hundred and seventy fve’. The
stone is of a pale even tone.

5 in. (12.7 cm.) long

£50,000-80,000 $77,000-120,000
€69,000-110,000

PROVENANCE: (mark)

From a private French collection, acquired prior to 65
the 1950’s.

The characters chang yi zi sun may be translated as
‘eternal benefts for sons and grandsons’.

The current jade belongs to an existing group
of related plaques which imitate Han dynasty
examples of this same shape, either with the
characters, yi zi sun, ‘For the beneft of sons
and grandsons’, or yi shou, ‘For the beneft of
Longevity’. An Eastern Han plaque inscribed with
the yi shou characters is in the Palace Museum in
Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of
Treasures of the Palace Museum - Jadewares (I),
Hong Kong, 1995, pp. 258-259, no. 216.

Compare this lot to an example from the Oscar
Raphael Collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum in
Cambridge, inscribed with Liangzi Yibai liushiba
hao, ‘the character Liang, from the series numbered
one hundred and sixty eight’, illustrated by James
C.S. Lin in Arts of Asia, May-June 2010, p. 114. no.
14. Also see another plaque in the Palace Museum
in Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of
Treasures of the Palace Museum - Jadewares (III), p.
158, no. 127, inscribed with Fuzi yibai bashiba hao,
‘The character Fu, from the series numbered one
hundred and eighty eight’.

來源:法國私人珍藏，購自1950年代前