Lot 111
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PALE CELADON JADE ARCHAISTIC 'GUI' TABLET
QIANLONG MARK, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art | 640
Auction: 14 May 2021 at 11:00 BST
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
Description
清 乾隆款 題詩白玉圭
the plaque tapering to a tip, a median ridge on one side, the ridged side finely incised on top with a seven-star Chinese constellation, middle with a poem, signed Qianlong on the Spring of Ji Hai year, lower with a stylised pointy rock in the middle of ferocious crashing waves, the reverse top with a circular 'Gu Xi Tian Zi', the middle inscribed and signed similarly in autumn, and the lower part with 'Wu Fu Wu Dai Tang Bao' in a square panel, the stone of translucent even white tone, set on a carved wooden bespoke stand
Dimensions
26.2cm high; 30cm high with stand