Lot 355
  • 355

A WHITE JADE THUMBRING WITH AN IMPERIAL POEM QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 HKD
bidding is closed

Description

  • jade
of archaistic cong form, three of the four sides of the ring incised with a poem, the remaining side with an inscription reading gengchen zhongdong (the second month of winter in the gengchen year, corresponding with 1760) and Qianlong yuti, the stone of an even white colour

Condition

The ring is in overall good condition with just minute insignificant tiny nicks and bruising to the edges. The catalogue illustration is a tinge redder than the actual colour of the stone.
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