清乾隆 青白玉壽星獻瑞圖硯屏

of rectangular form, crisply depicted on one side with a dramatic mountainous landscape scene depicting Shoulao holding a long staff in one hand and a longevity peach in the other, escorted by two attendants, walking up a steep path towards a small pavilion, the mountain detailed with jagged rocks and twisted pine trees, the reverse carved with a deer hopping towards its mate grazing on the grassy slopes amidst a similar landscape, all under swirling misty clouds, the stone of an even white colour suffused with cloudy and light russet inclusions

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Daphne Lange Rosenzweig，《The Yangtze River Collection: Later Chinese Jades》，Museum of Fine Arts，佛羅里達，聖彼得堡，1993年，編號60

Both sides of the panel are in good condition except for occasional expected minute nicks to the fragile extremities, including the wutong blossoms, the branches and the crevices of the boulders. There also also small areas of bruising to the edges and and minor polishing to areas of the extremities, particularly the front left corner.
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此硯屏，雕山巒景緻，所見茂林瀑布，涼亭棧道，營造出空靈幽深意境，細節入微，巧奪天工。其妙用玉石天然紋理，如將淺褐色紋用作山石與河流之分界。乾隆以前，玉料稀缺，此類硯屏鮮有以玉為材者，若以玉製，大多採用半透明玉石，如此，透過光線，所顯畫面隱約曼妙。

與石雕藝術相通，玉插屏所雕圖景亦源自傳統文學，諸如道教傳說與自然風光。畫面所見三人，分為壽老及其兩名隨從。比較一近似屏例，藏於臺北國立故宮博物院，錄於《宮廷之雅 : 清代仿古及畫意玉器特展》，臺北，1997年，編號72；另見一例於洛杉磯郡立美術館圖錄《Chinese Jade from Southern California Collections》，洛杉磯，1976年，編號44；亦見一插屏例於 Mary Porter Walsh 雅藏，尺寸稍大，載於《玉緣：德安堂藏玉》，故宮博物院，北京，2004年，編號67；第四例藏於牛津費茲威廉博物館，錄於林政昇，《The Immortal Stone. Chinese Jades form the Neolithic Period to the Twentieth Century》，倫敦，2009年，圖例87。