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assembled by Yamanaka & Company, Inc. now in the process absence of a cyclical date accompanying the poems would
of liquidation under the supervision of the Alien Property suggest that the pair, instead of being works created directly
Custodian of the United States of America, Yamanaka & from the Imperial Workshops, may be tribute items sent to the
Company, Inc., New York, 1943, no. 1323 and sold in these court by regional officials. See an inscribed mountain carved
rooms on 8th October 2013, lot 3042. from lapis lazuli of similar stone quality and colour, rendered
with comparable landscape scenes with cascade rocks,
The imperial poems inscribed on this pair of screens are taken
from Qing Gaozong yuzhi shiwen quanji [Anthology of imperial waterfall and trees, and similarly inscribed with an imperial
Qianlong poems and proses], Yuzhi shi si ji [Imperial poems, poem without a cyclical date, in the Palace Museum, Beijing,
vol. 4], juan 14. They echo the subject matter portrayed on illustrated on the Museum’s website http://www.dpm.org.cn/
the screens respectively, depicting scenes of deer and cranes collection/jade/234874.html. Compare also an agate table
at leisure in landscapes and conveying wishful blessings of screen, inscribed with an imperial poem of similar format but
longevity. signed Qi Shan, from the Qing court collection and now in the
Palace Museum, Beijing, published in The Complete Collection
These poems are characteristically inscribed in intaglio and of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Small Refined Articles of
filled with gilt, a technique common in the 18th century. The the Study, Shanghai, 2009, pl. 236.