£3,500
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art | 640
Auction: 14 May 2021 at 11:00 BST
清 子岡款 白玉雕蓮池御製詩玉牌
carved in mid relief on one side with a lotus pond, cleverly leaving the original yellowish skin on the large lotus leaf, pod and the blossoming flower, the other side with a corresponding imperial poem, all below a ruyi cloud pattern, the stone of even translucent white colour
Provenance: property of a gentleman; formerly in the collection of Frederick H Jewell (1836-1906), acquired from Hong Kong in 1903, thence by descent