Joan M. Hartman

Chinese Jade of Five Centuries


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      Chinese Jade of Five Centuries

      (Frontispiece) Gray-and-brown nephrite lotus coupe; 7¾ inches long, Ming dynasty. Metropolitan Museum of Art: Gift of Berber R. Bishop, 1902,

      JOAN M. HARTMAN

      Chinese Jade

       of

      Five Centuries

      CHARLES E. TUTTLE COMPANY: PUBLISHERS

       Rutland • Vermont & Tokyo • Japan

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       Continental Europe: BOXERBOOKS, INC., Zurich

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      Published by the Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc.

       of Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan

       with editorial offices at

       Osaki Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0032

      Copyright in Japan, 1969, by Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc.

       All rights reserved

       Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 69-12077

       ISBN: 978-1-4629-0962-9 (ebook)

       First printing, 1969

      Book design & typography by F. Sakade

       Layout of plates by S. Katakura

      PRINTED IN JAPAN

      To ALAN

      without whose encouragement and infinite patience

      this book would never have been

      Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Page 11
Preface 13
Acknowledgments 17
Periods of Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties 18
Introduction 19
I The Ming Dynasty (Plates 4-12) 37
II The Ch'ing Dynasty 65
SHUN-CHIH (Plate 13) 66
K'ANG-HSI (Plates 14-24) 69
YUNG-CHENG (Plates 25-26) 98
CH'IEN-LUNG (Plates 27-45) 102
End of the Ch'ing Dynasty (Pates 46-51) 146
Conclusion 161
Glossary 163
Bibliography 165
Index 169

      List of Illustrations

Asterisks (*) indicate color plates.
*1. (Frontispiece) Gray-and-brown nephrite lotus coupe 3
2. Lotus box of gray-green nephrite 28
3. Gray-and-brown nephrite lotus coupe 28
*4. Gray-green nephrite goose 46
5. Gray-green jade vessel in form of owl 48
6. Mountain carving of olive green nephrite 50
7. Buddha's hand citron of gray-green nephrite 52
8. (Two views) Sage green nephrite bowl 54
9. Sage green nephrite water buffalo 56
10. (Two views) Bowl of oxidized brown jade 58
11. Brown nephrite pi 60
12. (Two views) Marriage bowl of spinach jade 62
13. Altar chariot vase of white jade 66
*14. Yellow jade vase with dragon and phoenix birds 76
15. White jade dragon group 78
16. Twin-fish group of gray nephrite 80
17. White jade water buffalo with small boy 82
18. Yellow jade libation vessel 84
19. Gray-green jade vessel with dragons 86
20. White jade bronze-form vase