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○ 8      AN IMPORTANT INSCRIBED                      清乾隆   青白玉雕臨泉圖插屏
                PALE CELADON JADE TABLE
                SCREEN                                      題識:
                                                            雲外飛來百道泉 湱然千丈落前川
                QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD               厜㕒觀者伊誰氏 疑是大宛北谷仙
                of vertical rectangular form, skillfully carved in several layers of   御製詩 臣和珅敬書
                relief on one side with two scholars standing on a rocky outcrop
                beneath a gnarled pine tree all set within a vertiginous mountain   印文:
                landscape of craggy peaks and ravines, a waterfall coursing   臣 和珅
                between the distant summits before cascading down the steep
                rock face in the middle-distance, roiling clouds in the sky above,   來源
                the verso carved in low relief with a river estuary with steep   James Leipner 伉儷收藏
                rockwork rising to one side, the top left corner with a twenty-  1976年贈予布魯克林博物館,布魯克林 (館藏
                eight character poem Yuzhi gaoshi linquan shi (scholars by the   編號76.180)
                waterfall) incised and gilt, following by the inscriptions Yuzhi ti
                and He Shen jingshu (respectfully written by He Shen)  展覽
                                                            布魯克林博物館,布魯克林,約1980至1988年
                Height 10⅞ in., 27.6 cm

                PROVENANCE
                Collection of Mr. and Mrs. James Leipner.
                Gifted to the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, in 1976 (acc. no.
                76.180).
                EXHIBITED
                Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, circa 1980-88.
                $ 300,000-500,000



















                A hundred streams flying from
                beyond the clouds,


                Traveling thunderously for
                thousands of miles and falling

                into the river in front


                雲外飛来百道泉 湱然千丈落前川










       42       PROPERTY FROM THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM, SOLD TO SUPPORT MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
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