A MAGNIFICENT FINELY CARVED SPINACH-GREEN JADE BRUSHPOT

细节

A MAGNIFICENT FINELY CARVED SPINACH-GREEN JADE BRUSHPOT
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

The cylindrical brushpot intricately carved in deep relief with a continuous scene depicting the Four Noble Professions, including an old man with a young child seated on a boat catching fish beneath an overhanging pine tree, peasants carrying bundles of sticks up a mountain pass, a boy riding a buffalo followed by the farmer with a hoe on his shoulder waving to a lady and child behind them, and a scholar reading in a pavilion accompanied by assistants preparing tea, the stone of a rich slightly mottled spinach-green tone
6¼ in. (15.9 cm.) high, stand

来源

The Minnesota Museum of Art, St.Paul,Minnesota, de-accessioned in 1970
Chrisitie's London, 13 June 1990, lot 425

出版

Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, no. 113

展览

Christie's New York, 13-26 March 2001
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, August 2003-December 2004

拍品专文

Each scene on this brushpot represents one of the Four Noble Professions. This concept probably originated during Han dynasty and constitutes what was considered to be the ideal hierarchical system for the layman.