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Lot Essay
During the Qianlong reign, the Emperor requested that jade mountains, as well as plaques and panels with scenes of mountainous landscapes take their artistic influence from the work of famous painters.
Two jade boulders carved in a style similar to that of the present mountain, in the Qing Court Collection, Beijing, are illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 42 - Jadeware (III), Hong Kong, 1995, pls. 72 and 73. In discussing a white jade boulder illustrated in Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, p. 160, no. 127, the author, Robert Kleiner, comments on the Chinese literati fascination with carved jade boulders, and how they "represented miniature idealized landscapes into which the scholar himself could retreat without having to leave his study and they complemented the miniature gardens and trees cultivated by most scholars."
Two jade boulders carved in a style similar to that of the present mountain, in the Qing Court Collection, Beijing, are illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 42 - Jadeware (III), Hong Kong, 1995, pls. 72 and 73. In discussing a white jade boulder illustrated in Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, p. 160, no. 127, the author, Robert Kleiner, comments on the Chinese literati fascination with carved jade boulders, and how they "represented miniature idealized landscapes into which the scholar himself could retreat without having to leave his study and they complemented the miniature gardens and trees cultivated by most scholars."