Who were the jade carvers of the Qing Dynasty

A famous jade carver at the court of the Qianlong Emperor, a native of Suzhou. Zhu Yongtai's jades were characterized by simplicity and richness, and were well liked by Qianlong. At the beginning of the 53rd year of the Qianlong reign, the jade craftsman Zhu Yongtai of the Manufacturing Office spent one year to facet the imperial poems and annotations, and the style of the seals on the Jade Mountain, and the project ended here, before and after **** spent eight years. The Jade Mountain project is complex, the craftsmanship is exquisite, and the shape of the vessel is huge, which is extremely rare in the history of China's arts and crafts, and is a rare treasure. Zhu Yongtai's jade carving work (Jade Fuhai). Also known as Yunlong Jade Urn. Made with the shape of the jade, nearly flat square, around the body of the cut cloud dragon pattern, the belly light vegetarian, the bottom engraved Hongli inscription for the engraved poem. This jade is now stored in Le Shoutang bright room west side and the opposite of the Yu Shoushan. The original jade weighs 2,500 kilograms, with the seat 134.5 centimeters high, 135 centimeters wide, 60 centimeters long, 34.5 centimeters deep abdomen, also by the two Huai Salt Jade made from the forty-first year of qianlong to forty-five years (1776 ~ 1780) in october, which lasted four years and four months to complete.

Another jade carving by Zhu Yongtai is the Dayu Jade Mountain. The full name is "Miletta Mountain Jade, Picture of Dayu Ruling the Water". The jade mountain stands out like a peak, showing the scene of Dayu commanding the people to split the mountain and chisel the rocks on the lofty mountains and cliffs, and dredging the water hazards. Jade weighs more than 10,700 pounds, 244 centimeters high, 96 centimeters wide, inlaid with gold wire burnished bronze seat, known as the "King of Jade". The Yangxintian Hall Office of the Ruyi Pavilion was instructed to design the Jade Mountain according to the Song Dynasty painting of "Dayu's Rule over the Waters", and on the 10th day of the 2nd month of the 46th year of the Qianlong reign (1781), the four sides of the paper were drawn on the right and left sides of the back of the paper pattern, and Jia Quan, a painter from the Academy, painted on the large jade according to the pattern. The jade and wax samples were sent to the Salt Administration of the Two Huaiyas at the same time on the seventh day of the leap leap month of that year, and were shipped to Beijing on the sixteenth day of the eighth month of the fifty-second year of the reign of Emperor Qianlong (1787) after the milling and cutting process was completed. The back of the jade mountain is engraved with hundreds of words of imperial poems and seals by Zhu Yongtai, a famous carver from Suzhou. All the work took nearly 10 years. It is still in the back room of Leshou Hall.

Yao Zongren

Yao Zongren was a master jade carver from Suzhou in the Qing Dynasty. Yao Zongren's grandfather and father were both good at jade cutting. In the seventh year of the Yongzheng reign (1729), Yao Zongren was selected to go to Beijing at the same time as Du Zhitong and Han Shiliang, and worked at the palace jade-making office. He was good at designing and drawing samples. In 1741, Qianlong six years, on the first day of February, the eunuch Zhang Ming gave a piece of jade to Yao Zongren to draw samples, and on the sixteenth day, Yao Zongren drew paper samples of the eider zun, which were approved by the emperor and sent to Suzhou for production. Yao Zongren not only can draw samples, but also good at identification, Qianlong very important to him.

Zhu Shiyun

Suzhou jade carving expert during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. He was good at carving characters on jade. Zhu Shiyun was selected by the Suzhou Weaving Office to be sent to Beijing and served in the Palace Office for more than a year. In July 1775 of the 40th year of the Qianlong reign, Zhu Shiyun absconded from the palace on the pretext of illness, and the Office of the King's Maker sent a letter to Suzhou for this purpose, requesting Suzhou to investigate and handle the case. (Qianlong jade wash) on the verse of the carving hand, according to the "Yangxintian Hall Office of the work done by the work of the clear file" (referred to as "clear file") records, at this time Suzhou carving master Zhu Shiyun in the Palace of the order, then, the poem is likely to be carved by Zhu Shiyun.

Zhiting

Famous jade carver of the Qianlong court. Zhiting's imitation of ancient jade has begun to take shape.

Xie Shifang

The Qing dynasty during the Qianlong period in Wu County, his former residence in the incense mountain near the Yuantong nunnery. Xie Shifang lost his father when he was young, and his family was poor, so his neighbor recruited him as an apprentice and took him to Yangzhou to learn jade carving. He was a keen learner and completed his studies in three years. The jade carving was so exquisite that the salt merchants in Yangzhou competed with each other to buy it at a high price, and his reputation rose. During the Qianlong period, he was called into the inner court of the palace. One of its works, shaped like half a valve watermelon, green skin like jade, the inner flesh of red like pearl Xia, as if just cut open, manna is dripping, see the people who are all surprised. Emperor Qianlong love it, hidden in the Yuanmingyuan. l860 years when the British and French allied forces burned the Yuanmingyuan, was obtained by the British army, and then sold to Shanghai. People who saw this jade are amazed, thought the most precious.