Chinese Jade of Five Centuries. Joan M. Hartman

      

      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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      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	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