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○ 23 A CELADON JADE SQUARE 清十九世紀 青玉雕八仙祝壽圖
‘DAOIST IMMORTALS’ TABLE
插屏
SCREEN
來源
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY 恭親王 (1833-1898) 收藏
with rounded corners, carved in varying depths of relief with American Art Galleries，1913年2月22日，編號146
the ‘Eight Daoist Immortals’ within a balustraded balcony Robert B. Woodward (1840-1915) 收藏
overlooking a flowing stream, surrounded by craggy cliffs and 1914年贈予布魯克林博物館，布魯克林 (館藏
gnared trees including pine and wutong, the Immortals looking 編號14.280)
up at Shoulao riding a crane in the opposite corner amidst
swirling clouds, a peach tree laden with fruit below the soaring 出版
deity, the reverse carved with five bats amidst lingzhi-shaped John Getz，《The Woodward Collection of Jades
clouds in low relief, the stone a pale green with icy inclusions and and Other Hard Stones》，紐約，1913年，編號171
scattered faint brown patches
Length 7½ in., 19 cm

PROVENANCE
Collection of Prince Gong (1833-1898).
American Art Galleries, 22nd February 1913, lot 146.
Collection of Robert B. Woodward (1840-1915).
Gifted to the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, in 1914 (acc. no.
14.280).
LITERATURE
John Getz, The Woodward Collection of Jades and Other Hard
Stones, New York, 1913, pl. 171.
Table screens are one of the Qing dynasty’s major contributions
to Chinese lapidary art. The present screen is notable for
its square format, as most quadrangular table screens are
rectangular in form. Its auspicious design brims with blessings of
longevity and good fortune.
A circular celadon jade table screen attributed to the late Qing
or early 20th century is similarly carved with immortals amidst
a landscape looking up at a crane, illustrated in Michael Knight,
He Li, and Terese Tse Bartholomew, Later Chinese Jades: Ming
Dynasty to Early Twentieth Century, from the Asian Art Museum
of San Francisco, San Francisco, 2007, pl. 34. A pair, attributed
to the late 18th/early 19th century, also features rounded
corners with the trees carved in a related manner to the present,
and was sold at Christie’s London, 10th June 1996, lot 156.
Yixin (1833-1898), better known as Prince Gong (or Kung) was
one of the most influential political figures of the late Qing period.
He was appointed as the Imperial Commissioner to negotiate
the treaty with the Anglo-French delegation, which subsequently
ended the Second Opium War. As the Qing empire came to
its end, Prince Gong’s grandson sold a large quantity from the
collection, including this table screen, to the renowned Asian
art dealer Yamanaka Sadajiro (1865-1935), who subsequently
dispersed these items through a legendary three-day auction at
the American Art Galleries in New York in 1913.

$ 60,000-80,000

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