A GROUP OF THREE WHITE JADE AND AN AGATE ARCHER’S RINGS, QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
A GROUP OF THREE WHITE JADE AND AN AGATE ARCHER’S RINGS
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
The group comprises: a white jade ring carved in low relief on one side with a bowing scholar and his attendant and on the other side with four characters Yuan Zhang baishi (Yuan Zhang bowing to the rock) in standard script; a white jade ring in shallow relief depicting a continuous scene of a man paddling a small sampan, the other main side with a crane in flight carrying a tally in its beak towards a distant two-storey pavilion in the sea, ending with a four-character inscription haiwu tianchou (adding a tally to the immortal’s abode above the sea) followed by two seals, ‘Zi’ and ‘Gang’; a white jade ring enclosing a long poetic inscription followed by a ‘Qian’ trigram emblem and a seal reading ‘Long’; and an agate ring of undecorated circular form. All the white jade rings are of a warm white tone.
The largest: 1 1/4 in. (3.3 cm.) diam. (4)
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A GROUP OF THREE WHITE JADE AND AN AGATE ARCHER’S RINGS
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
The group comprises: a white jade ring carved in low relief on one side with a bowing scholar and his attendant and on the other side with four characters Yuan Zhang baishi (Yuan Zhang bowing to the rock) in standard script; a white jade ring in shallow relief depicting a continuous scene of a man paddling a small sampan, the other main side with a crane in flight carrying a tally in its beak towards a distant two-storey pavilion in the sea, ending with a four-character inscription haiwu tianchou (adding a tally to the immortal’s abode above the sea) followed by two seals, ‘Zi’ and ‘Gang’; a white jade ring enclosing a long poetic inscription followed by a ‘Qian’ trigram emblem and a seal reading ‘Long’; and an agate ring of undecorated circular form. All the white jade rings are of a warm white tone.
The largest: 1 1/4 in. (3.3 cm.) diam. (4)
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