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A RARE CARVED AND IMPERIALLY INSCRIBED PALE CELADON
JADE TABLE SCREEN
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

The front is intricately carved with a mountainous landscape scene, featuring
small houses and pagodas amidst tall pine and wutong trees, below gilt-
decorated clouds and two cranes in fight. The reserve is delicately inscribed
and gilt with a long poetic inscription, ending with two seals reading Qian and
long respectively, all surrounded by a stylised key-fret border. The stone is of a
pale celadon tone with attractive honey russet inclusions.
9¬ in. (24.5 cm.) wide

£30,000-50,000 $43,000-70,000
€38,000-63,000

PROVENANCE: Poem recorded in Qing Gaozong Yuzhi Shiwen Quanji (5), vol. 3, juan 23, The
National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1976.
From a private European collection.
《游棲霞山》，載1976年臺北出版《清高宗御製詩文全集(五)》
The poem was composed by the Qianlong emperor to eulogise the beauty ，御製詩三集，卷二十三
and tranquility of the Qixia Mountain and the Qixia temple located in Nanjing,
and is published in Qing Gaozong Yuzhi Shiwen Quanji (5), vol. 3, juan 23, The
National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1976. The emperor encountered the idyllic
scenery with tall peaks and streams when he passed through the mountain
during his famous Southern Inspections.

清乾隆 御題詩青白玉描金「第一金陵明秀山」插屏

來源:歐洲私人珍藏

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