AN IMPERIAL INSCRIBED PALE GREEN JADE DOUBLE-SIDED 'THREE FRIENDS OF WINTER' TABLE SCREENQianlongOf rectangular horizontal form, carved in low relief to one side with a group of pine tree, bamboo and blooming prunus stem issuing from craggy rocks, the reverse inscribed and gilt-decorated with an Imperial poem bearing the title,Yuzhiti sanyoutu, 'Inscribed by Imperialmand, Three Friends of Winter', signed Chen Wangjie Jing Shu (Respectfully by Official Wang Jie), the stone of an even pale celadon tone, stand.15.8cm (6 1/4in) wide (2).Provenance: 清乾隆 青白玉填金御題三友圖雙面硯屏Provenance:Louis Joseph (label)Sotheby's London, 8 November 2017, lot 34來源：Louis Joseph（標籤）倫敦蘇富比，2017年11月8日，拍品34The table screen is inscribed with an Imperial poem, recorded in Yutishi Erji, 'Imperial Poems, volume 2', juan 44 See figure 1; on the reverse is carved with the auspicious motif of the 'Three Friends of Winter' (Suihan sanyou), with the pine and bamboo which remain green through the cold winter and the prunus, the first tree to blossom each year. These three plants are representative of fortitude and uprightness in adverse conditions, as well as symbolic of longevity. The earliest mention of this theme is found in the writings of the Song loyalist Lin Chingxi (1241-1310), although it quickly became a popular decorative motif from the Yuan through the Qing period.See a related double-sided jade screen inscribed with a passage assigned by Emperor Qianlong in the Palace Museum, Beijing, also signed Chen Wangjie Jing Shu ('Respectfully by Official Wang Jie') with two seal of his, illustrated in Noble Virtuosity: Imperial Jades of the Qing Dynasty from the Palace Museum, Macau, 2012, pl.51. See also an Imperial inscribed jade table screen signed by Wang Jie in the Summer Palace Collection, illustrated inpendium of the Cultural Relics in the Collection of the Summer Palace, Beijing, 2018, pp.50-51.A jade screen of similar size as the present lot, carved on one side with bamboo grove by a river and on the reverse inscribed with a poetic inscription was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 May 2019, lot 3016.屏呈橫向式，一屏低浮雕飾歲寒三友圖，背面陰刻描金御題詩一首，詩云：「伯夷聖之清，瀟灑侯似彼；伊尹聖之任，後凋貞可比；栁下聖之和，報春屬氷蕊。堪為忘年交，要之皆君子。孟氏既前呼，蘇家後唱是。允稱益者友，不出尼山㫖。命筆冩其真，在彼不在此。」出自《御製詩二集巻四十四》，見圖1。末端題「臣王杰敬書」，鈐印「臣」及「杰」。乾隆皇帝提倡山水畫藝術體現於玉雕工藝，製成玉山子和玉插屏，這類作品數量頗多，構圖和雕琢工藝亦達最高水平。玉雕圖畫往往表現人物活動精確，風景佈局嚴謹，遠近層次分明，動植物也是寫生入微，既有透#...