M5919
£9,500
Description
A Chinese white jade openwork reticulated rectangular belt plaque carved with seven different shou characters, each supported on a ruyi-head scrolling branch, the three at the top between a bird and a bat in flight, with a central flowerhead, all amongst scrolls and within a rectangular frame, the underside with four pairs of holes for attachment.
Wanli, 1573-1619
3 3/4 inches, 9.5 cm x 2 5/8 inches, 6/7 cm
Condition
Natural fissures to the bottom edge.
Provenance & Additional Information
- From an old English private collection.
- This very rare belt plaque forms part of a set, a complete set sewn onto a belt from the Qing Court Collection is included by Zhao Nan-quan in Jadeware (II) The Complete Collection of Treasures from the Palace Museum, Beijing, Volume 41, no. 165, p. 202, where the author also includes a complete belt with openwork dragons and, also from the Qing Court Collection, perhaps the main piece from this very belt with eleven shou characters, and a peach-shaped piece which would have been one of six also from this very belt, with three shou characters, where the author notes that the belt usually consists of twenty pieces and that this belt would have been a longevity belt.
- Two belt plaques, one with one shou character and one with two shou characters, with deer and dragons respectively, were included by Marchant in their exhibition of Post-Archaic Chinese Jades, 1995, nos. 40 & 42, pp. 39/40.
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