Page 23 - March 17, 2020 Imperial Jade and Cloisonne, Sotheby's, New York

○ 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