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Lot Essay
The characters chang yi zi sun may be translated as 'eternal benefits for sons and grandsons'.
The current jade belongs to an existing group of related plaques which imitate Han dynasty examples of this same shape, either with the characters, yi zi sun, 'For the benefit of sons and grandsons', or yi shou, 'For the benefit of Longevity'. An Eastern Han plaque inscribed with the yi shou characters is in the Palace Museum in Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - Jadewares (I), Hong Kong, 1995, pp. 258-259, no. 216.
Compare this lot to an example from the Oscar Raphael Collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, inscribed with Liangzi Yibai liushiba hao, 'the character Liang, from the series numbered one hundred and sixty eight', illustrated by James C.S. Lin in Arts of Asia, May-June 2010, p. 114. no. 14. Also see another plaque in the Palace Museum in Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - Jadewares (III), p. 158, no. 127, inscribed with Fuzi yibai bashiba hao, 'The character Fu, from the series numbered one hundred and eighty eight'.
The current jade belongs to an existing group of related plaques which imitate Han dynasty examples of this same shape, either with the characters, yi zi sun, 'For the benefit of sons and grandsons', or yi shou, 'For the benefit of Longevity'. An Eastern Han plaque inscribed with the yi shou characters is in the Palace Museum in Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - Jadewares (I), Hong Kong, 1995, pp. 258-259, no. 216.
Compare this lot to an example from the Oscar Raphael Collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, inscribed with Liangzi Yibai liushiba hao, 'the character Liang, from the series numbered one hundred and sixty eight', illustrated by James C.S. Lin in Arts of Asia, May-June 2010, p. 114. no. 14. Also see another plaque in the Palace Museum in Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - Jadewares (III), p. 158, no. 127, inscribed with Fuzi yibai bashiba hao, 'The character Fu, from the series numbered one hundred and eighty eight'.