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A CELADON JADE ‘LANDSCAPE’ SCREEN The present jade screen illustrates two popular activities
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD for celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival. Li Bai (701-762),
one of the greatest romantic poets of the Tang dynasty, is
superbly worked on one side with scholars enjoying the believed to have drowned in the Yangtze River, after trying
reflection of the moon, the reverse with further scholars to drunkenly embrace the moon’s reflection. To enjoy the
watching the tide, all amidst jagged mountains set with tall reflection of the full moon on water has since become an
verdant trees, set within a wooden frame Autumn ritual for the elites to commemorate the legendary
with frame 29.8 by 27.7 cm, 11 ¾ by 11 in. scholar. Another festive activity is to watch the tide under
the moonlight, which is illustrated on the reverse side of the
PROVENANCE present screen.
Hotel Drouot, Paris, 30th March 1965, lot 24.
Despite the popularity of jade screens of scholarly subjects,
LITERATURE no comparable example of similar design seems to be
recorded. Compare a smaller rectangular jade screen of the
Cabinet Portier, 100 ans, 1909-2009, Paris, 2010, p. 56, no. Qianlong period, depicting an idyllic scene of the scholar
254.
Zhou Dunyi admiring a pond of summer lotuses, sold in
these rooms, 3rd October 2017, lot 3617. A white jade screen
HK$ 120,000-150,000
decorated with moonlit waterscape, but without any scholar,
US$ 15,400-19,200 formerly in the Art Institute of Chicago gifted by Samuel M.
and Matilda Nickerson, was sold in our New York rooms,
清乾隆 青白玉撈月觀潮圖屏 20th March 2019, lot 568. For a later example, see a smaller
rectangular jade screen with scholars watching the tides
attributed to the late Qing dynasty, sold at Christie’s Hong
來源： Kong, 1st May 1995, lot 817.
巴黎德魯奧大樓1965年3月30日，編號24
出版：
此屏以中秋為題，兩面分別以撈月及觀潮作飾。相傳唐
《Cabinet Portier, 100 ans, 1909-2009》，巴黎，2010
代詩人李白（701-762年）泛舟賞月，酩酊醺醉，欲攬
年，頁56，編號254
明月水影，躍身江中而歿，自此世人有雅賞水中秋月之
習，以懷緬一代詩仙。中秋也是觀潮佳期，此屏另一面
正以此為飾，呼應中秋之題。
以文人高士為圖之玉屏，並不罕稀，然著錄似乎未見有
其他撈月觀潮之例。比較一乾隆長方玉屏，飾周敦頤賞
夏荷，尺寸較小，2017年10月3日在香港蘇富比拍出，
編號3617。另見一白玉插屏，飾明月銀光下，松山雲
瀑瀉，卻四下無人，荒蕪靜穆，原屬 Samuel M. and
Matilda Nickerson 伉儷所藏，惠贈芝加哥藝術博物館，
近在2019年3月20日於紐約蘇富比售出，編號568。還
可參考一晚清屏例，飾高士觀潮圖，尺寸略水，售於香
港佳士得1995年5月1日，編號817。

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