Early Chinese Plain White Ancestral Altar Plaque with Archaic Dragons
Key-fret design surrounding a Shou mark, in a finely carved hardwood stand.
Note: Dr. Stanley Charles Nott was one of the leading dealers in jade and authored a number of pioneering reference publications in the field from the late 1920s to the late 1940s, including Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages, London, 1936. His gallery, The House of Jade Ltd., was located at 17 East 42nd Street, New York.
Jade: Ht. 7 1/2 x W 9 x D 1/4 in.
Stanley Charles Nott, The House of Jade, Ltd., New York.
Collection of Hugh Douglas Barclay, Pulaski, New York, Former New York State Senator and United States Ambassador to the Republic of El Salvador.