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skilfully worked to depict the ‘four accomplishments’, the seven-stringed qin rendered within a brocade sash loosely
tied with a ribbon and partially exposing the instrument, next to a weiqi board beneath an opened book, all wrapped within
a scroll painting incised on the reverse with prunus blooms, bamboo shoots and jagged cli?s, next to an inscription reading Suihan sanyou tu (‘Picture of the Three Friends of Winter’) followed by two seal marks reading shen and pin (‘divine
class’), the paperweight further decorated with a gnarled pine branch, the lustrous white stone with faint russet inclusions
7.1 cm, 2? in.
Compare a jade carving worked with a similar motif, illustrated in the exhibition, Arts from the Scholar’s Studio, Fung Ping Shan Museum, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1986, pp. 236-237, cat. no. 226 and sold in these rooms, 8th October 2010, lot 2196, from the Water, Pine and Stone Retreat Collection. 清十八世紀 白玉雕琴棋書畫鎮紙