Prope♐rty from the Brooklyn Museum, sold to support museum collections
A celadon jade square 'Daoist immortals' table screen, Qing dynasty, 19th century | 清十九世紀 青玉雕八仙祝壽圖插屏
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March 17, 03:03 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A celadon 🍰ja🍸de square 'Daoist immortals' table screen
Qing dynasty, 19th century
清十九世紀 青玉雕八仙祝壽圖插屏
with rounded corners, carved in varying depths of relief with the 'Eight Daoist Immortals' within a balustraded balcony overlooking a flowing stream, surrounded by craggy cliffs and gnared trees including pine and wutong, the Immortals looking up at Shoulao riding a crane in the opposite corner amidst swirling clouds, a peach tree laden with fruit below the soaring deity, the reverse carved with five bats amidst lingzhi-shaped clouds in low relief🦹, the s🌃tone a pale green with icy inclusions and scattered faint brown patches
Length 7 ½ in., 19 cm
Collection of Prince Gong (1833-1898).
Am🎃erican Art Galleries, 27th💝 February, 1913, lot 146.
Collection of Robert B. Woodward (1840-1915).
Gifted⛎ to the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, 🍎in 1914 (acc. no. 14.280).
來源
恭親王 (1833-1898) 收藏
American Art Galleries，1913年2月27日，編號146
Robert B. Woodward (1840-1915) 收藏
1914年贈予布魯克林博物館，布魯克林 (館藏編號14.280)
John Getz, The Woodward Collection of Jades and Other Hard Stones, New York, 1913, pl. 171.
出版
John Getz，《The Woodward Coll෴ection of Jades and Other Hard Stones》，紐約🧸，1913年，編號171
Table screensꩲ are one of the Qing dynasty's major contributions to Chinese lapidary art. The present screen is notable for its square format, as most quadrangular table screens are rectangular in form. Its auspicious design brims with blessings of longevity and good fortune.
A circular celadon jade table screen attributed to the late Qing or early 20th century is similarly carved with immortals amidst a landscape looking up at a crane, illustrated in Michael Knight, He Li, and Terese Tse Bartholomew, Later Chinese Jades: Ming Dynasty to Early Twentieth Century, from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, 2007, pl. 34. A pair, attributed to the late 18th/early 19th century, also features rounded corners with ꦇthe trees carved in a related manner to the present, and was s🐎old at Christie's London, 10th June 1996, lot 156.
Yixin (1833-1898), better known as Prince Gong (or Kung) was one of the most influential political figures of the late Qing period. He was appointed as the Imperial Commissioner to negotiate the treaty with the Anglo-French delegation, which subsequently ended the Second Opium War. As the Qing emp𝓰ire came to its end, Prince Gong's grandson sold a large quantity from the collection, including this table screen, to the renowned Asian art dealer Yamanaka Sadajiro (1865-1935), who subsequently dispersed these🌼 items through a legendary three-day auction at the American Art Galleries in New York in 1913.