A CHINESE RETICULATED JADE ‘CRANE’ PLAQUE.

Jin / Yuan Dynasty.

Of oval domed form, elaborately carved in openwork with a crane shown in flight beneath a smaller bird amidst the stems and leaves of a lotus pond, some of the stems and leaves are also detailed on the reverse within the raised outer border, 7.5cm long.

Provenance: an important South African private collection, acquired between the 1960s and 1980s, thence by descent to the present owner.

金 / 元 鏤雕鶴紋玉牌

來源：得於1960至80年代南非重要私人收藏，後傳承至今。

For a comparable reticulated plaque in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in China at the Inception of the Second Millennium: Art and Culture of the Sung Dynasty, 960-1279, Taipei, 2000, cat. no. V-11.

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