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Brush Jar with an Imperial Inscription

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Qianlong Period

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Brooklyn Museum Object Description
Cylindrical brush pot, containing two brushes, a ruyi scepter and a roller. A Greenish-White and Russet Jade Brush pot (Christies Title) 8/08 A Small Greenish-White Jade Hard stone Inlaid Ruyi Sceptre (Christies Title) 8/08 A Metal Mounted Hard stone and Jade Roller.(Christies Title) 8/08 A Pair of White and Green Jade Brushes. (Christies Title) 8/08 Accession card: The pot is of white jade, semi-translucent, polished, with a slightly greenish tinge and patches of brown. It is carved on the outside with a rock and wave design, also containing a bat, a crane, a peach, and pine trees, the later pierced a jour. On one side is a poem incised in the surface, the characters of which are gilded. It reads ...

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Title

Brush Jar with an Imperial Inscription

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Worktype

Vessel

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Material

Carved jade and hardstone

Dimensions

a: 6 1/4 x 6 in. (15.8 x 15.3 cm) b: 8 1/2 x 2 9/16 x 1 1/4 in. (21.6 x 6.5 x 3.2 cm) c: 6 1/4 x 5 1/4 x 1 5/16 in. (15.9 x 13.4 x 3.3 cm) d: 11 13/16 x 1 11/16 in. (30 x 4.3 cm) e: 11 3/4 x 1 11/16 in. (29.8 x 4.3 cm)

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Date

Qianlong Period

Provenance

Bequest of Robert B. Woodward, Nov 06, 1915

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Inscription

松芝多秀色 鶴語記春秋 福如東海島 蓬萊赴蟠桃 The pine trees and lingzhi fungi form a beautiful scenery; The crane’s call is a record of the Spring and Autumn period; With happiness as boundless as the eastern seas and islands; I attend a banquet of immortality peaches on the Penglai isles. Inscribed by order of the Qianlong emperor.

Location

China

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