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LOT 1974
Chinese Hardstone Plaque Pendant
20TH CENTURY A.D.
2 3/8 x 1 1/2 in. (46 grams, 59 x 39 mm).
Obverse with high-relief scene of a crane and a running dog, reverse with recessed panel and four columns of reserved text. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Paris gallery, 1980-1990.
From a Parisian collection.
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With flat oval cross-section stem, tapering very slightly from the bowl and ending in a simple ball seal knop; a maker's mark in the form of a Tudor rose within a circular border stamped within the bowl, adjacent to the stem. 48 grams, 17 cm
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Acquired 1990s-early 2000s. East Anglian private collection.
The tile production increased in the second half of the sixteenth century and during the following centuries. The fragments discovered from various localities (pot-tiles, rectangular, triangular and trapezoidal panels, open-work crest tiles) were all produced in regional workshops, from the end of the 15th century or at the beginning of the 16th century. They all had diverse decorative motifs, mainly animals and geometrical or vegetal combinations, almost all of them singular finds for this study area.
