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AN INSCRIBED WHITE JADE ‘ORCHID 清十九世紀 白玉題詩蘭亭雲泉圖插屏
PAVILION’ PLAQUE
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY 刻文：
of rectangular form, the front face worked in relief depicting 御題蘭亭圖。
scholars gathered at Lanting (Orchid Pavilion) amongst a 御史西臺變姓名，蘭亭賺得促歸程；溪橋跋馬伊誰氏，
mountainous landscape, below a gilt-inscribed imperial poem 應是馳來徐善行。
corresponding to the scene, the reverse with two further 御製雲泉初瀑。
scholars and their attendant journeying up the mountains
towards the Yunquan waterfalls below another imperial 春氣濛濛欲濕衣，山樓樹色嫩青圍；巖冰嶺雪消融候，
poem corresponding to the scene, the stone of an even white 併作新泉落下飛。
tone with occasional milky inclusions
25.8 by 17.5 cm, 10⅛ by 6⅞ in.
HK$ 150,000-200,000
US$ 19,200-25,600

The present jade plaque follows the tradition of shiyi tu 玉屏遵循詩意圖之傳統，以詩入畫，畫中有詩，屏上詩
(poetic paintings), which aims to translate poetry into 畫相輔相乘，更添意趣。屏一面雕琢冬雪方消、初瀑臨
artworks. The aesthetics and poetic quality of this type of 泉之景，詠嘆新春之美。另一面則刻劃蘭亭雅集，王羲
works are amplified through the juxtaposition of the poems
with the corresponding pictorial depiction. 之與一眾文人聚首，曲水流觴，飲酒賦詩。參考台北故
宮博物院藏觀瀑圖玉插屏，尺寸較小，也鐫御製詩，圖
On the present plaque, one scene illustrates a pavilion
overlooking a freshly melted waterfall, which announces 見《宮廷之雅：清代仿古及畫意玉器特展圖錄》，台
the arrival of Spring. The other scene depicts Wang Xizhi 北，1997年，編號67。
at the famous Lanting (Orchid Pavilion) gathering near
Shanyin, Zhejiang province, to celebrate the Spring Purifying
Ceremony in the 9th year of the Yonghe reign (353 AD). The
wine cups on leaves floating down the stream refers to the
poetry competition, which condemned the scholars to drink
wine if they failed to come up with a poem.
A slightly smaller table screen, decorated with scholars
and inscribed with an imperial poem, is in the collection of
the National Palace Museum, Taipei, and illustrated in The
Refined Taste of the Emperor: Special Exhibition of Archaic
and Pictorial Jades of the Ch’ing Court, Taipei, 1997, cat. no.
67.

Inscription on the reverse side

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