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拍品專文
This exquisite white jade brush rest depicting a vivid scene figuring farmers and horses crossing a arched bridge overlooking four boats of a floating market is one of the finest examples which fully embodies the delicacy and creativity of craftsmanship under the Empereur Qianlong's reign. This rare white jade 'bridge' brush rest seems to be the only exemple with its original spinach green jade base decorated with rocks and waves.
Carved jades such as this present piece represent miniature idealised landscapes upon which the scholar-collector could contemplate and escape. As R. Kleiner mentions in Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, p. 160, "they complement the miniature gardens and trees cultivated by most scholars.".
Compare with a extremely similar white jade brush rest nevertheless without its original base in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Jadeware (III), Hong Kong, 1995, p. 195, no. 159.
Carved jades such as this present piece represent miniature idealised landscapes upon which the scholar-collector could contemplate and escape. As R. Kleiner mentions in Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, p. 160, "they complement the miniature gardens and trees cultivated by most scholars.".
Compare with a extremely similar white jade brush rest nevertheless without its original base in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Jadeware (III), Hong Kong, 1995, p. 195, no. 159.