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34 The long inscription contains an imperial poem composed by the Qianlong
Emperor which is published in Qing Gaozong Yuzhi Shiwen Quanji (1),
A RARE INSCRIBED CELADON JADE AND ZITAN ‘NINE DRAGON’ leshantang, vol. 1, The National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1976. This morally
HAT STAND didactic poem states that rectitude is the foundation of everything, a
DATED BY INSCRIPTION TO THE CYCLICAL YEAR OF DINGJI OF THE principle bestowed by the heavens that should be followed by all those on
QIANLONG PERIOD, CORRESPONDING TO 1737 AND OF THE PERIOD earth. It purports that men should strive to achieve rectitude of the highest
level, despite our weaknesses caused by selfshness and ignorance.
The top of the upper section is intricately carved with two fve-clawed dragons
amidst clouds, surrounding a roundel containing the characters Qianlong A similar white jade and rosewood hat stand, also carved with dragons
yu yong, ‘for the imperial use of the Qianlong Emperor’. The underside is and decorated with a Qianlong imperial poem, is in the British Museum in
decorated with two further dragons. The zitan shaft is inscribed and gilt- London, illustrated in the Oriental Ceramics Society exhibition catalogue
decorated with a long inscription, separated by a jade mid-section carved with Chinese Jade throughout the Ages, London, 1975, no. 463. A pair of
a dragon. The base is decorated with four further dragons. The jade is of a comparable jade hat stands is in the Palace Museum in Beijing, illustrated
celadon tone with some darker and lighter inclusions. in The Palace Museum Collection of Elite Carvings, Beijing, 2002, pl. 85. Also
10¬ in. (27 cm.) high see a jade and jichimu hat stand with imperial poems which was sold at
Sotheby’s New York, 3 June 1987, lot 292 and again at Sotheby’s Hong Kong,
£30,000-50,000 $43,000-70,000 5 October 2011, lot 2166.
€38,000-63,000

清乾隆丁己年(1737） 青玉紫檀御題詩文帽架

Poem recorded in Qing Gaozong Yuzhi Shiwen Quanji (1), leshantang, vol. 1, The
National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1976.

詩文出自《立身以至誠為本論》，載1976年臺北出版《清高宗御製詩
文全集(一)》，樂善堂全集定本卷之一