清 白玉東籬採菊圖珮

finely carved on one side with the recluse Tao Yuanming standing below a rocky cliff and overhanging pine set with a pavilion uphill, an attendant carrying flowers beside him, the reverse inscribed in low relief with a poem by Tao Yuanming and signed Zigang, all within an archaistic pair of confronting chilong, pierced to thread a string

The pendant is in good overall condition. The actual colour is warmer and slightly more of celadon tone compared to the catalogue illustration.
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Tao Yuanming's poem reads Cai ju dong li xia you ran jian nan shan and can be translated as follows:

'Plucking chrysanthemums by the east wall,
I behold South Mountain at leisure.'