TWO VERY PALE GREEN JADE SQUARE BELT PLAQUES Tang Dynasty (3)TWO VERY PALE GREEN JADE SQUARE BELT PLAQUESTang DynastyThe surfaces carved in low relief each with a design of a musician, one seated cross-legged playing a flute, the other figure kneeling on a carpet playing the sheng, all surrounded by billowing scarves, one with metal fitting on the reverse, box. The larger, 3.7cm (1 7/16in) square. (3).唐 青玉奏樂胡人紋帶板 一組兩件Provenance: Deqingshuwu collectionChristie's Hong Kong, 26 April 2004, lot 1256Roger Keverne Ltd., London, 8 June 2006A distinguished English private collectionPublished, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2004, no.91 and 92來源：德馨書屋舊藏香港佳士得，2004年4月26日，拍品編號1256倫敦古董商Roger Keverne Ltd.，2006年6月8日英國顯赫私人收藏展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2004年，編號91，92These plaques would have fitted together to form a belt, and numerous such plaques, variously decorated with foreigner musicians, dancers, performers and servers, are in museum collections. Compare with two related jade belt plaques decorated with foreign figures playing musical instruments, illustrated in Jadeware (II) - The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1995, pls.22 and 23. See also a set of eleven jade 'musician' belt plaques, Tang dynasty, illustrated by A.Forsyth and B.McElney, Jades from China, Bath, 1994, pp.288-289, no.193.