A FINELY CARVED WHITE JADE PLAQUE

18TH/19TH CENTURY

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A FINELY CARVED WHITE JADE PLAQUE
18TH/19TH CENTURY
The thick plaque carved on one side with a scholar and his young attendant in a terraced garden by a pavilion, gazing up at a crane in flight amidst pine trees, the reverse with a lengthy inscription followed by two seals 'Zi' and 'Gang', all beneath a pair of archaistic, confronted chilong at the top, strung with a coral bead and seed pearls
2 5/8 in. (6.6 cm.) long

来源

Nagatani Inc., Chicago, 1975.

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Chinese Jade: The Image from Within, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, 1985 - 1986, no. 197.

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The inscription may be translated as:

'Dew from the wutong tree lies on the remaining lotus as the moon fills the window.
The sound of bamboo and shadows of trees fall on the spring river.
No human trace remains on the stone path covered with moss.
I sit and wait for a pair of white cranes to return.'