An important inscribed pale celadon jade table screen, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period | 清乾隆 青白玉雕臨泉圖插屏

An important inscribed pale celadon jade table screen

Qing dynasty, Qianlong period

清乾隆 青白玉雕臨泉圖插屏

of vertical rectangular form, skillfully carved in several layers of relief on one side with two scholars standing on a rocky outcrop beneath a gnarled pine tree all set within a vertiginous mountain landscape of craggy peaks and ravines, a waterfall coursing between the distant summits before cascading down the steep rock face in the middle-distance, roiling clouds in the sky above, the verso carved in low relief with a river estuary with steep rockwork rising to one side, the top left corner with a twenty-eight character poem Yuzhi gaoshi linquan shi (scholars by the waterfall) incised and gilt, following by the inscriptions Yuzhi ti and He Shen jingshu (respectfully written by He Shen)

題識：

雲外飛來百道泉 湱然千丈落前川

厜㕒觀者伊誰氏 疑是大宛北谷仙

御製詩 臣和珅敬書

印文：

臣 和珅

Height 10 ⅞ in., 27.6 cm