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Jade Mountain, front

07-0928-5472

 

"Jade Mountain Illustrating the Gathering of Poets at the Lan T'ing Pavilion"

 

Chinese, Ch'ing Dynasty, 1784 (commissioned by the Ch'ien-lung emperor [1736-1795])

 

This piece is simply fabulous, one of the crown jewels of the Chinese collection at MIA; I never tire of examining its details. The Chinese and Japanese collection at MIA is incredible!

 

This is purported to be the largest sculpture of a single piece of jade that exists outside of China.

 

Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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