A PAIR OF IMPERIAL INSCRIBED SPINACH JADE PLAQUES, China, Qianlong Period (1736-1795)

Once part of a book, they are inscribed in gold gilt with four horizontal lines of characters. The characters an excerpt from the Qianlong imperial poem “Si De Lun” (四得論). Page numbers are engraved on the bottom edge.

Provenienza: -Acquistate a Singapore nel 1961.

Catalogue notes: For a similar Imperially inscribed jade plaque see The National Palace Museum Taipei, accession number 中玉000315N000000000. See also the pieces again at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Accession number 故玉003499N000000000

See also Christie’s, Important Chinese Ceramics And Works Of Art, Hong Kong, December 2 2015, lot. 3166