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CHINE DYNASTIE QING, XIXe SIÈCLE

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CHINE DYNASTIE QING, XIXe SIÈCLE
Pendant plate
In carved white jade, decorated with a scene of a woman spinning in an interior while three children play with locusts.
The reverse with a heptasyllabic quatrain in Lishu from the poem "Luo Si" (Spinning Silk) by the Qianlong emperor, composed for the new version of "Gengzhitu": "Autumn awakens boundless passions in the seraglio|
Like the sound of crickets when cold comes.
When conscripts go a thousand leagues to Yumen, What a pity we can't spin new silk!"
The text is completed with two seals, "Xin" and "Zhai" (Abstinence of the mind).
Dim. 5.8 x 4.3 cm

PROVENANCE:
French private collection. Acquired in China in the 1920s, then by descent.