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Impo rtant Chinese Art
New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 686

AN EXCEPTI ONAL WHITE JADE 'RED CLIFFS' TABLE SCREEN, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
Estimate: 200,000 - 300,000 USD

AN EXCEPTIONAL WHITE JADE 'RED CLIFFS' TABLE SCREEN
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
清乾隆 白玉雕赤壁夜遊圖插屏

the translucent white stone of rectangular form, skillfully carved with several layers of relief on one side depicting Su Dongpo,
Huang Tingjian and the monk Foyin accompanied by a boatman seated in a covered raft in a river estuary facing a large
overhanging cliff face with pine and wutong growing from the crags, the reverse carved with a scholar and an attendant admiring a
crane in flight amid clouds before a pavilion sheltered amongst a bamboo grove and a pine tree, the lower level depicting
a waterfall in a rocky landscape next to a prunus tree, the even white stone with a very pale celadon tinge, two wood stands (3)

Height 8¼ in., 21 cm

Provenance
European Private Collection.

來源
歐洲私人收藏

Catalogue Note
Expertly carved from a luminous white stone, the present table screen is an outstanding example of the height of carving in the
Qianlong period. The carver has successfully created a sense of depth and three-dimensionality on a flat surface by fashioning the
stone to varying levels of relief and utilizing the way the light refracts through and reflects on the surface. Such screens were

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