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PROPERTY FROM THE SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS, SOLD TO SUPPORT ART
ACQUISITIONS AND COLLECTIONS CARE
~960
A CARVED WHITE JADE-INSET HARDWOOD TABLE SCREEN
THE JADE PLAQUE, JIAQING PERIOD (1796-1820)
The thick rectangular plaque is carved on one side with a mountainous
landscape scene with a young boy and a buffalo under a pine tree. The reverse
is carved with an imperial poem describing the scene. The plaque is set within
a carved openwork wood frame that fits into a separate, tiered wood stand.
The Jade plaque, 8¬ x 57 in. (21.9 x 14.8 cm.)
Table screen, 17æ x 12º in. (45.1 x 31.1 cm.)
$80,000-120,000
PROVENANCE:
George Walter Vincent Smith (1832-1923), Springfield, Massachusetts,
acquired prior to 1910.

The imperial poem inscribed on the reverse of the plaque comments on
the changing of the seasons and the transience of time. It was composed
by Jueluo Guifang (d. 1814), a high-ranking scholar-official who passed the
imperial exam in 1799. Jueluo served as the tutor to the Jiaqing Emperor’s (r.
1796-1820), third son, Miankai, Prince Dunke of the First Rank (1795-1838),
and was subsequently appointed to govern the canals for transportation in
southern China.
(inscription)
斯普菲博物館珍藏，拍賣收益將用於藏品購藏及維護
硬木嵌白玉雕山水詩文插屏 玉：清嘉慶
來源:
史喬沃先生（1832-1923），斯普林菲爾德，麻薩諸塞州，入藏於1910年以前。

The current jade table screen, the jade moonflask, lot 955, and the jade Buddha, lot 959, on exhibit in the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, circa 1896-1910.
此件白玉插屏，是次拍品955號白玉抱月壺及拍品959號白玉佛，於1896-1910年前後在史喬沃美術館展覽。