of rectangular form, the front deftly and deeply worked in varying levels of relief, depicting an idyllic scene of the scholar Zhou Dunyi standing beside a crouching attendant by a fenced podium emerging from cragged rockwork, admiring blooming lotuses on a flowing river before mountains in a distance, the scene framed on the right with tall pine trees on jagged rocks, lightly inscribed to the reverse in Qianlong's calligraphy with Zhou's poem Ai lian Shuo ('On the love of the lotus') and two characters reading yubi ('In the Imperial hand'), followed by two square seals reading Jixia yiqing ('When does one have the leisure to delight the heart?') and de jiaqu ('obtaining refined enjoyment'), all bordered by a key-fret band, raised on a zitan wood stand carved with stylised taotie masks, above a stepped rectangular plinth formed from reticulated lotus and ruyi panels divided by baluster-form supports between horizontal lappet bands

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倫敦佳士得2005年11月10/11日，編號390

題識：
水陸草木之花，可愛者甚蕃。晉陶淵明獨愛菊，自李唐來，世人甚愛牡丹。予獨愛蓮之出淤泥而不染，濯清漣而不妖；中通外直，不蔓不枝；香遠益清，亭亭淨植，可遠觀而不可褻玩焉。予謂：菊，花之隱逸者也；牡丹，花之富貴者也；蓮，花之君子者也。噫！菊之愛，陶後鮮有聞。蓮之愛，同予者何人？牡丹之愛，宜乎眾矣！周子愛蓮說。

此屏雕宋代著名理學家周敦頤（1017-1073年）倚亭賞蓮，並刻御題《愛蓮說》，❀以詩意圖屏，訓君子應以蓮為模，學其「出淤泥而不染，濯清漣而不妖；中通外直，不蔓不枝；香遠益清，亭亭淨植」。

周子《愛蓮說》所頌之德，自宋為文人所尚，至清一朝，帝君也以此自勉。雍正帝嘗🅘以大行草御書《愛蓮說》，乾隆ღ元年（1736年），高宗敕命將之摹刻，收入《四宜堂法帖》首卷。

相類清乾隆白玉蓮池插屏，見香港蘇富比🅘售出一例，然乏人物，題高宗御製詩，2014年10月8日，編號3656。另可參考劍橋哈佛大學賽克勒博物館藏白💖玉羲之愛鵝圖插屏，也刻高宗御製詩，藏品編號1942.185.173.A。