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admiration for this treasured stone. In terms of
style, he was particularly fond of jade designs
inspired by antiquities and paintings. The latter,
typically with depictions of figures and landscapes,
aim to create a visual effect similar to that of
paintings, but in a three-dimensional form by
carving the stone in relief on varying levels. Like
on paintings, verses were sometimes inscribed on
jades to accompany pictorial representations.
A jade mountain, carved with two scholars
standing by a waterfall, bears the same poem. It is
in the collection of the National Palace Museum,
Taipei (accession no. 故-玉-003848), and included
in the Museum’s exhibition The Refined Taste of
the Emperor: Special Exhibition of Archaic and
Pictorial Jades of the Ch’ing Court, Taipei, 1997,
cat. no. 41 (fig. 2). The Emperor’s poems are often
found inscribed on more than one work.
Compare two smaller white jade table screens,
each depicting a scholar appreciating a landscape,
carved in low relief and inscribed with an imperial
poem followed by the phrase chen Wang Jie
jingshu (respectfully written by the Emperor’s
subject Wang Jie), one in the Summer Palace,
Beijing, published in Compendium of the Cultural
Relics in the Collection of the Summer Palace,
Beijing, 2018, p. 50-1; the other sold in our Hong
Kong rooms, 8th April 2010, lot 1907. See also a
smaller white jade screen from the De An Tang
Collection, with a woodcutter and fisherman in a
landscape, inscribed with two imperial poems and
the name of the official Jueluo Guifang, included
in the exhibition, A Romance of Jade: From the De
An Tang Collection, Palace Museum, Beijing, 2004,
cat. no. 62.

是對仿古及畫意玉器更是情有獨鍾。畫意
玉器多以山水人物為題，意在捕捉傳統書
畫之神韻，並利用深淺浮雕營造出立體
感，此外還仿效書畫傳統，於留白處書刻
題識。

參考一玉山例，刻劃兩高士立於瀑布旁，
題詩與本品相同，現藏於台北國立故宮博
物院（ 館藏編號故-玉-003848），曾展於
《宮廷之雅：清代仿古及畫意玉器特展圖
錄》，國立故宮博物院，台北，1997年，
編號41（圖二）。同首御製詩題於不同玉
作之上時常可見。
另可參考兩較小玉插屏例，作山水高士
圖，刻御製詩，並題「臣王杰敬書」，其
一現藏於北京頤和園，載於《頤和園藏
文物大系．玉器卷I》，北京，2018年，
頁50-1；其二售於香港蘇富比2010年4月8
日，編號1907。再比一白玉例，德安堂收
藏，尺寸較小，雕漁樵圖，刻御製詩兩
首，並題「臣覺羅桂芳敬書」，曾展於
《玉緣：德安堂藏玉》，故宮博物院，北
京，2004年，編號62。

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