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31 The image of a lone scholar in contemplation gazing upon a waterfall
A GREY AND PALE GREEN JADE BRUSHPOT, BITONG was a popular romanticised subject of the Song dynasty; see for
18th century example Scholar by a Waterfall by Ma Yuan (active AD 1190-1225), in
Finely carved around the exterior with a continuous landscape scene, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (accession no.1973.120.9).
featuring an elderly scholar accompanied by a young attendant The use of paintings as inspiration for decoration on porcelain vases
carrying a qin, admiring a waterfall cascading down between rock cliffs and jade vessels and screens was popular from the late Ming dynasty
and emerging as a stream that continues onto the base, all amidst a period and continued onto the Qing period as exemplified in the
backdrop of trees and rockworks, the stone of a pale tone with light present lot. Such idyllic depictions found favour in the Qing Court as
grey areas and darker speckles, wood stand. is demonstrated in the variety of jade carvings with related designs;
11.6cm (4 1/2in) high (2). see from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, a white and russet
jade screen, Qing dynasty, similarly carved with a scholar followed
HK$80,000 - 120,000 by an attendant holding a wrapped qin, illustrated by Chang Li-tuan,
US$10,000 - 15,000 The Refined Taste of the Emperor: Special Exhibition of Archaic and
Pictorial Jades of the Ch’ing Court, Taipei, 1997, pl.64; and from the
十八世紀 青灰玉雕高士賞遊圖筆筒 Qing Court Collection, see a white and russet jade boulder, Qianlong,
illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace
Provenance 來源: Museum: Jadeware (II), Shanghai, 2008, pl.53.
Acquired prior to 13 November 1969, probably from Louis Joseph,
London 明清時期的玉器開始突出「畫意」，玉匠常採用繪畫中常見題材如花
An English private collection and thence by descent 鳥、山水、人物故事等，以嫻熟工藝在玉料上雕刻出追求筆趣畫意的
紋飾。此筆筒的圖案可參考南宋畫家馬遠的《松崖觀瀑圖》，現藏於
1969年11月13日前購於倫敦古董商Louis Joseph 美國大都會博物館（藏品編號1973.120.9）。以類似畫風為題材的
英國私人收藏，並由家族成員繼承 玉器在清代宮廷頗為流行，其他相關例子可參見國立故宮博物院藏一
件清代白玉插屏，著錄於張麗瑞，《宮廷之雅：清代仿古及畫意玉器
特展圖錄》，台北，1997年，圖版64；也對比清宮舊藏一件乾隆時
期的白玉山子，見《故宮博物院藏文物珍品大系：玉器（II）》，上
海，2008年，圖版53。

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