Period:Qing dynasty Production date:18thC
Materials:jade
Technique:
Subjects:child sage landscape
Dimensions:Height: 15.50 centimetres
Description:
Jade figure of a miniature mountain with two buildings, sages and a group of boys depicted.
IMG
![图片[1]-figure; model group BM-1930-1217.10-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Jades/mid_00023298_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-figure; model group BM-1930-1217.10-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Jades/mid_00030560_001.jpg)
![图片[3]-figure; model group BM-1930-1217.10-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Jades/mid_00030561_001.jpg)
![图片[4]-figure; model group BM-1930-1217.10-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Jades/mid_00100668_001.jpg)
Comments:Rawson 1992:Small representations of mountains signified the retreat of the scholar from official life and offered the alternatives of a hermit’s existence or of individual expression in the face of strong government bureaucracy. Such mountains were also seen as a route to paradise. But the paradise beyond is not an outworldly paradise filled with angels, as described in the Western world; it is a land with a calmer, better life, a more archaich version of the present life. Daoism viewed the natural world, especially mountains, as the home of immortals. See also BM 1943.0215.30, BM 1991.1028.2 and BM 1889.0306.4. Rawson 1995:This small mountain-like jade is a three-dimensional carving of a landscape image shown in a woodblock illustration based on Dong Yuan (fl. mid-10th century AD) from the ‘Wuyan Tangshi Huapu’ (one of the parts of the ‘Jiyazhai huapu’).
Materials:jade
Technique:
Subjects:child sage landscape
Dimensions:Height: 15.50 centimetres
Description:
Jade figure of a miniature mountain with two buildings, sages and a group of boys depicted.
IMG
Comments:Rawson 1992:Small representations of mountains signified the retreat of the scholar from official life and offered the alternatives of a hermit’s existence or of individual expression in the face of strong government bureaucracy. Such mountains were also seen as a route to paradise. But the paradise beyond is not an outworldly paradise filled with angels, as described in the Western world; it is a land with a calmer, better life, a more archaich version of the present life. Daoism viewed the natural world, especially mountains, as the home of immortals. See also BM 1943.0215.30, BM 1991.1028.2 and BM 1889.0306.4. Rawson 1995:This small mountain-like jade is a three-dimensional carving of a landscape image shown in a woodblock illustration based on Dong Yuan (fl. mid-10th century AD) from the ‘Wuyan Tangshi Huapu’ (one of the parts of the ‘Jiyazhai huapu’).
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![[Qing Dynasty] British female painter—Elizabeth Keith, using woodblock prints to record China from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China—1915-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/image-191x300.png)
