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The Property of a Gentleman 紳士藏品 The deep carving in the green jade screen depicts
123 scholars engaged in appreciating painting, one of the ‘Four
A fine spinach-green jade boulder with Accomplishments’ required of a scholar (the other three are
cloisonné enamel stand playing the qin, weiqi and calligraphy). This subject matter was
18th century popular in painting and also depicted in jade carving. See for
The dark green jade carved with a group of three scholars, one example a pair of green jade table screens, Qing Dynasty, from
leaning on a staff inspecting a scroll decorated with a yinyang the Qing Court Collection, with similar in-depth carving, showing
symbol unrolled between the other two figures, all beneath scholars playing weiqi, practicing calligraphy and engaged in
overhanging rocks within a pine grove, the plaque fitting into conversation, illustrated by Zheng Xinmiao, ed., Compendium of
a cloisonné enamel support enamelled with a taotie mask and Collections in the Palace Museum - Jade, Qing Dynasty, vol.8,
terminating in dragon-heads, all fixed to a wood stand carved on Beijing, 2010, pl.158.
each side with a bat perched upon thick cloud scrolls.
The jade 13.4cm (5¼in) wide (2).
£10,000 - 15,000
HK$120,000 - 190,000 CNY98,000 - 150,000

十八世紀 碧玉雕人物圖山子連掐絲琺瑯饕餮紋座
Provenance: an English private collection
來源：英國私人收藏

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