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A fine very pale green jade plaque 18th/19th century
8 November 2012, 10:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £5,000 inc. premium
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A fine very pale green jade plaque
18th/19th century
Finely carved with figures by the riverside and on a sampan, within a mountainous landscape with a willow tree and a pavilion, the other side with a three-line inscription.
5.5cm (2 1/8in) long
Finely carved with figures by the riverside and on a sampan, within a mountainous landscape with a willow tree and a pavilion, the other side with a three-line inscription.
5.5cm (2 1/8in) long
Footnotes
十八/十九世紀 青玉雕山水人物圖牌
The inscription reads:
一帆雲作伴,
千里月相隨
This can be translated as:
the clouds are our companions,
for a thousand miles the moon follows
which is a couplet from the late Tang poem 'Composed while travelling south on the Fuyang river' 南游富陽江中作 by Wei Zhuang 韋莊 (836?-910).














