MONTAGNE EN JADE CELADON SCULPTE

CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, EPOQUE QIANLONG (1735-1796)

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MONTAGNE EN JADE CELADON SCULPTE
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, EPOQUE QIANLONG (1735-1796)
On y voit personnages et animaux évoluer dans un paysage de montagne escarpé planté d'arbres et de maisons. Il est inscrit d'un poème de quatre vers de l'Empereur Qianlong pour son oncle le Prince Yinxi (1711-1758) faisant référence au village utopique du Taohua yuanji (La source des fleurs de pêcher).
Hauteur : 10 cm. (4 in.), socle

Provenance

From a French private collection, acquired in China circa 1900 and thence by descent.

Further details

A CELADON JADE MOUNTAIN
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD (1735-1796)

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Lot Essay

This elegant jade mountain is inscribed with a poem by Emperor Qianlong dedicated to his uncle Prince Yinxi (1711-1758), from a series of thirty six poems describing the peaks of the Huangshan mountain range originally accompanying an album depicting those landscapes by the latter. This particular poem refers to the idyllic village mentioned in famous Jin literatus Tao Yuanming's Taohua yuanji (Peach Blossom Spring) symbolising a timeless utopia.

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