Table screen with carved jade inlays of children playing, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty

Table screen with carved jade inlays of children playing, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty

• Image Number: K1C008830N000000000PAC
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Jades
• Function: furnishings
• Material: Minerals/Jade Jewelry/Jade
• Description:
  Wooden screen insert, embedded with two carved jade pieces with childlike patterns. The wood carvings on both sides are matched with jade carvings, which together form a picture of the nine sons playing in the garden, bamboo, stone, banana and hell. Under the wooden seat is engraved a royal poem written in the official script of the 19th year of Qianlong reign (1754), which reads: “The seven emotions are true only to children, children play with good spirits, touch the eyes with their hands, face the virtual steps, bamboo trees shade the green birds, jade people carve strange rings with their bare clothes, Suisui is good for their own ideas, and Mengsou called heaven is all. Qianlong Jiaxu’s autumn imperial title”.