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
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Published by the Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc.
of Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan
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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 |
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