A WHITE JADE 'BOYS AND BUTTERFLIES' PLAQUE Qing Dynasty The rectangular plaque with cusped corners, carved in low relief on one side with two boys sitting on a large plantain leaf, one leaning on a large melon and the other fanning two fluttering butterflies, the reverse with a poetic inscription in cursive script, all in vertical cartouches below a frieze of archaistic motifs, the stone of even white tone with a russet inclusion. 6.6cm (2 5/8in) long. 注脚 清 白玉雕童子嬉戲瓜瓞紋珮 Butterflies and melons form the pun guadie 瓜瓞, a rebus for 'Ceaseless generations of descendants'. See a very similar white jade 'boys and butterfly' plaque, Zigang mark, Qing dynasty, formerly in the Durwin Tang collection, which was sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 27 November 2018, lot 183. See also a related white jade pendant, Qing dynasty, illustrated in the Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade, 9, Beijing, 2011, p.246, no.250.