A reticulated white jade 'bird and flowers' belt-buckle


Probably Song/Jin DynastyMeticulously carved in openwork with a long-tailed bird perched amongst blossoms and clusters of leaves, one side carved with an oval belt aperture, the softly polished stone of even white tone, box. 5.5cm (2 1/8in) long (2).
|或宋/金 白玉雕花鳥帶鉤Provenance: the Muwen Tang Collection, Hong KongSotheby's Hong Kong, The Muwen Tang Collection of Chinese Jades, 1 December 2016, lot 114 (part lot)Durwin Tang Collection來源：香港沐文堂舊藏香港蘇富比，「五德冰清—沐文堂藏中國玉雕」專場，2016年12月1日，拍品114（之一）鄧德雍收藏The well-reticulated buckle is a rare example of the carver's remarkable ability which has successfully enhanced a pebble of refined and even white tone with a delicate design.It is very rare to find a jade belt-buckle with this design. For an example of a closely-related jade plaque, Song or Jin dynasty, see J.Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, no.25:13. See also another related white jade plaque, Song Dynasty, illustrated in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade 5 Tang, Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, Beijing, 2011, p.143, no.149.