An outstanding imperial inscribed Khotan white jade 'landscape' boulder Qing dynasty, Qianlong period, the poem dated to the Spring of the gengxu year, corresponding to 1790 | 清乾隆 御製「題和闐玉山水圖」山子 《乾隆庚戌春御題》款 「古香」、「太璞」印

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An outstanding imperial inscribed Khotan white jade 'landscape' boulder

Qing dynasty, Qianlong period, the poem dated to the Spring of the gengxu year, corresponding to 1790

德安堂藏玉

清乾隆 御製「題和闐玉山水圖」山子 《乾隆庚戌春御題》款

「古香」、「太璞」印

the elongated irregular boulder exquisitely and deeply carved in high relief as a craggy mountainous riverscape, depicting a walled village of thatched cottages and pavilions nestled amidst pine and wutong trees, with a woman weaving in a cottage, and an elderly crossing a bridge with a boy, all surrounded by intricately layered rocks with numerous crevices and streams flowing in the foreground, incised and gilded on the top with an imperial poem, followed by Qianlong gengxu chun yuti (imperial composition by the Qianlong Emperor in the Spring of the 55th year, 1790) and two seals reading guxiang ('fragrance of antiquity') and taipu ('great gem') respectively, the reverse with a continuous scene of the landscape with a boy riding a buffalo towards a pavilion next to a gnarled pine tree, the semi-translucent stone of an even white tone accentuated with attractive warm russet inclusions, wood stand

題識：

玉人三倍計無已，不琢尊罍琢山水，

尊罍肖古勢難工，山水寫圖易為美；

就其土浸作渲染，因彼峰稜成岌峨，

吁嗟牟利有是哉，幾欲擲之不顧耳。

21.3 cm