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White Chinese Jade Plaque with Figure and Calligraphy Republic Period ? or Earlier ? Any input would be appreciated. It appears the carved man figure is seated and playing a musical instrument of some type? Also, any help translating the inscription would be kindly appreciated. Thank you.

洛陽尋才子　江嶺作流人
問訊梅花早　何如此地春
子岡
I went to Luoyang to visit my talented friend,
but he was exiled to Jianglin
I heard that the plum blossoms there early,
but how can it be compared to the spring here ?
Zigang (Probably, the name of artist)

Text; Tang Dynasty poet Meng Haoran`s poem "Visiting Yuan Shiyi in Luoyang and
not meeting him"

The man on the other side is playing qin, a seven-stringed plucked instrument in some ways similar to zither.

With regards,
I.Nagy

Correction,
洛陽訪才子...... is correct
I.Nagy

Thank you very much for your kind assistance and your time and effort to translate. Wishing you the best!

Hi China doll,
I my opinion based purely on your images that it's highly probable to be from the late Republic period 1912-1949 through to the early PROC 1949-.
The quality of the carving is OK.
Unfortunately your images are not the best as they blur when enlarged.
Its a very nice piece.
Regards,
Mark@imperial

Thank you for your reply and helpful assistance. Sorry that the pictures are not clear when enlarged. I had to resize the images for this forum. I will try to post better images in future posts. Thank you again !

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