Qingqianlong White Jade Fang Guan Cheng's private use of the seal "Young Yiyuan Jade Seal" (a set of nine parties)

Inscription: "Kindergarten", "Moon Tree Double Pavilion", "Kuiwen First Floor", "Rock Shoulder", "YiQingxuan", "East Hedge Yiqu", "Maundying Pond", "Xinlan Bookstore", "Embroidery Boat"

Remarks: Mr. Ip Gong-chi's old collection

Original hardwood printing box, box drop: "Young Garden Jade Chapter" and "Xinlan Bookstore Treasures"

This set of jade seals has a total of nine squares, with different buttons and shapes. All the Nine Seals are finely carved from the finest Hetian white jade, and the jade is condensed and warm, which is extremely rare. The buttons of the Nine Square Seals include lion buttons, beast buttons, dragon buttons, etc.; the carving of the buttons is extremely vivid and vivid, and cannot be done by skilled craftsmen who are not able to do so in the Qing Dynasty court internal affairs office. The nine seals are: "Kindergarten", "Moon Tree Double Pavilion", "Kuiwen First Floor", "Rock Shoulder", "YiQingxuan", "East Hedge One Song", "Mao Jinchi", "Xinlan Book House", "Embroidery Boat". This nine-square seal script is deep and simple, with different shapes, all of which are elegant trumpets of pavilions and pavilions, which are extremely rare. It is equipped with rosewood and one bamboo yellow storage box. The rosewood box has beautiful lines, exquisite materials, natural pulp, and the box surface is engraved with all the printed content, and there are two types: "Young Garden Jade Seal" and "Xinlan Bookstore Collection". The font is handsome and official. The bamboo yellow box has excellent pulp throughout, and the picture is presented in a carved manner on the lid, which is extremely elegant. According to the side section of the seal, this set of nine-party seals belonged to Fang Guancheng, a famous official during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.

In the thirtieth year of the Qianlong Dynasty (1765), Fang Guancheng, the viceroy directly subordinate to the Qianlong Emperor, presided over a set of maps of the whole process from cotton planting, management to weaving and spinning, weaving and dyeing into cloth, with the background of the Qianlong Emperor's view of the cotton behavior of the Wang's manor in Baoding. There are sixteen pictures, counting cloth seeds, irrigation, ploughing, picking tips, cotton picking, refining, harvesting, rolling cores, bullet flowers, restraints, spinning threads, pulling warp, cloth pulp, machine, weaving, practicing dyeing, each picture is equipped with a text description and a poem of seven words, like a comic strip. The book contains Kangxi's "Kapok Endowment and Order", which is the only monograph on cotton atlas in China. When the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty was on a tour of the south and was stationed in the Baoding Palace, Fang Guancheng listed this drawing and asked the emperor to view the "Cotton Map" framed in a book. The Qianlong Emperor recited the "Cotton Map" repeatedly, breathtaking and praising, but wrote seven words and sentences for each picture, a total of sixteen poems. These poems are exquisitely crafted and elegant, and have thousands of meanings, which add a lot of color to Fang's cotton charts. Therefore, the "Cotton Map" is also known as the "Royal Cotton Map".

Lot information

LOT No. 5151 Title Qingqianlong White Jade Fang Guan Cheng's Private Seal "Young Yiyuan Jade Seal" (a set of nine parties)

Author -- Different sizes The creation date is Qingqianlong

Estimate 100,000-150,000 Transaction price RMB 1,495,000