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A reticulated white jade 'bird and flowers' belt-buckle Probably Song/Jin Dynasty
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A reticulated white jade 'bird and flowers' belt-buckle
Meticulously carved in openwork with a long-tailed bird perched amongst blossoms and clusters of leaves, one side carved with an oval belt aperture, the softly polished stone of even white tone, box. 5.5cm (2 1/8in) long (2).
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或宋/金 白玉雕花鳥帶鉤
Provenance: the Muwen Tang Collection, Hong Kong
Sotheby's Hong Kong, The Muwen Tang Collection of Chinese Jades, 1 December 2016, lot 114 (part lot)
Durwin Tang Collection
來源:香港沐文堂舊藏
香港蘇富比,「五德冰清—沐文堂藏中國玉雕」專場,2016年12月1日,拍品114(之一)
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The well-reticulated buckle is a rare example of the carver's remarkable ability which has successfully enhanced a pebble of refined and even white tone with a delicate design.
It is very rare to find a jade belt-buckle with this design. For an example of a closely-related jade plaque, Song or Jin dynasty, see J.Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, no.25:13. See also another related white jade plaque, Song Dynasty, illustrated in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade 5 Tang, Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, Beijing, 2011, p.143, no.149.
