Provenance 來源:|Sotheby's Hong Kong, Water, Pine and Stone Retreat Collection, Scholarly Art II, 4 April 2012, lot 140|香港蘇富比，《水松石山房藏珍玩專場》，2012年4月4日，編號140|It is recorded in the Imperial archives that the Qianlong Emperor set the strictest standards for his jades and that he often drew inspiration from the tradition of his forefathers in developing his own taste and styles. It is also stated that the Emperor was personally involved in overseeing the process of jade production, whereby he frequently questioned officials in charge of the jade atelier regarding their selection of craftsmen and personally inspected the quality of their work.|It is very rare to find a jade bowl of this elegant form and design, and it appears that no other examples have been published. The exceptional workmanship allows light to shine through its semi-translucent body to enhance the richness of the yellow stone. The continuous band of raised bosses and the incised 'S'-shaped lines may have drawn inspiration from jade vessels from the Western Han period. Qing dynasty jade carvers successfully adapted classical forms and reinterpreted them in new ways, all under the watchful eye of the Emperor.|Compare the decoration of a jade cup, zhi, excavated at Shizishan in 1994-5, now in the Xuzhou Museum; and a jade stem cup excavated at Xianggangshan in 1983, now in the Museum of the King of Nanyue in Guangdong Province, both from the Western Han period, illustrated by J.C.S. Lin, The Search For Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China, Cambridge, 2012, pl.58 and 164. |玉質青黃色，帶有褐色玉皮。圓形，撇口，淺圈足稍外撇，口沿下琢細密斜線紋，腹部飾排列工整的浮雕雲榖相雜紋，足上部陰刻雲紋。整體玉質柔潤，造型端莊優雅，盡顯古拙之氣。|乾隆皇帝愛玉成癖，為玉而題作的詩文便超過八百三十篇。《造辦處成做活計清檔》曾記載乾隆帝全程監督宮廷玉器製作的過程，從而更顯他對玉的熱衷。除了愛玉，乾隆帝也博雅慕古，乾隆一朝大舉提倡復古主義，效上古聖賢之道，崇尚高古先民簡約樸實之風，認為古典器物樸素、精純、高雅、有意涵。為此，乾隆曾下喻命內廷畫師為宮中所藏高古青銅器繪製《西清古鑑》，後者繼而為玉匠提供靈感，詳閱張麗端著，《宮廷之雅：清代仿古及畫意玉器特展圖錄》，台北，1997年，頁15，49-50。|此碗模仿西漢時期之紋飾，其連線乳釘紋可與一件於1994-5年出土於獅子山，現藏於徐州博物館的黃玉卮比較；也參考一件1983年出土於象崗山，現藏於西漢南越王博物館的玉高足杯，兩件均為西漢時期，見J.C.S. Lin編，《The Search For Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China》，劍橋，2012年，圖版58和164。