AN IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE IMPERIALLY INSCRIBED GREENISH-WHITE JADE ''TWIN FISH'' WASHER, CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD, DATED BY INSCRIPTION TO THE CYCLICAL BINGWU YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1786

AN IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE IMPERIALLY INSCRIBED GREENISH-WHITE JADE "TWIN FISH" WASHER
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD, DATED BY INSCRIPTION TO THE CYCLICAL BINGWU YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1786
Finely carved with straight, flaring sides encircled by three bow-string bands, the interior carved in high relief with a pair of fish, the base raised on five rectangular feet surrounding an incised imperial poem, Ti hetian yu shuangyu xi (A Khotan Jade Twin Fish Washer), signed Qianlong yuti (imperially composed by Qianlong), dated to autumn of bingwu year (1786), followed by two seals reading guxi tianzi (Son of Heaven at Seventy) and youri zizi (Still Diligent Every Day), all picked out in gilding, the stone of pale greenish-white tone with subtle white flecks
10 in. (25.4 cm.) diam., hongmu stand

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THE FLORENCE AND HERBERT IRVING COLLECTION