figure;
model group
- Museum number
- 1930,1217.10
- Description
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Jade figure of a miniature mountain with two buildings, sages and a group of boys depicted.
- Production date
- 18thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 15.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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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.
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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').
- Location
- On display (G33/dc36b/s1)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2006 22 May-3 Sept, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, 'Art at the Rockface'
2006-2007 23 Sept-7 Jan, Sheffield, Millennium Galleries, 'Art at the Rockface'
- Acquisition date
- 1930
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1930,1217.10
