Lot 154
FINE AND LARGE CHINESE INSCRIBED WHITE JADE 'LANDSCAPE' TABLE SCREEN
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
Auction: 15 May 2026 from 10:00 BST
Description
清 乾隆款 白玉填金《蜀道難》山水圖硯屏 帶木座
the jade panel of square form, finely carved to one side with a male figure leading an older figure with his boy attendant in a rugged shanshui landscape with craggy cliffs, crashing water below, gnarled pine trees overall, bridge afar, and houses on top, reverse meticulously carved and gilded with a poem by Li Bai ‘Shu Dao Nan’ (The Difficulty of the Shu Road), lower left with a four-character Qianlong seal mark, framed in hongmu pierced carved panel inset onto a stand
Dimensions
jade screen: 16cm x 14.5cm; 36cm x 30.5cm overall with wooden stand
Provenance
Formerly in Private English collection
前英格蘭私人收藏
Footnote
This finely carved jade table screen portrays the treacherous mountains separating Sichuan from the rest of China. The design is complemented by Li Bai's (701-762) poem, emphasising that the road to Shu is as hard as scaling the blue sky.
Compare to a fine white pale green jade imperially inscribed table screen, Qianlong, dated by inscription to 1775, similar to this lot with a landscape carved to one side, reverse with poem, sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 4 Dec 2008, lot 205; Also see an imperially inscribed white jade screen, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period, one side with landscape, reverse with a four-verse poem by Hu Jitang, previously in Dr Wou Kiuan Collection, sold at Sotheby's London, 1 Nov 2022, lot 22; Further compare to a fine and rare large white jade double-sided Imperially-inscribed screen, Qianlong period, sold at Bonhams London, 11 Nov 2010, lot 56.
此件精細白玉硯屏描繪了巍峨險峻、峰巒疊嶂的群山。背面配以李白（701–762）詩句《蜀道難》，強調「蜀道之難，難於上青天！」
參一例乾隆時期青白玉御題桌屏，依銘文紀年為1775年，與本拍品相似，一面刻以山水景觀，背面刻詩，2008年12月4日售於香港邦瀚斯於拍賣，拍品205；見一件清乾隆御題白玉桌屏，一面為山水圖，背面刻有胡季堂四言詩，吳權博士舊藏，2022年11月1日售於倫敦蘇富比，拍品22；另可比較一件乾隆大型白玉雙面御題桌屏，2010年11月11日售於倫敦邦瀚斯，拍品56，可資比較。