A CELADON AND RUSSET JADE PEACH AND BATS GROUP

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A CELADON AND RUSSET JADE PEACH AND BATS GROUP
17TH CENTURY

Very finely carved as double peaches issuing from their knobby, crooked branch, with delicately articulated leaves in alternately high and low relief and two bats carved from the darker inclusions, the colour of the stone ranging from pale celadon to dark russet tone, with golden veins
3 1/4 in. (8.2 cm.) long, stand

Lot Essay

A similar peach and bat group with the same dating is illustrated by Angus Forsyth and Brian McElney, Jades from China, 1994, p. 398, pl. 328.

The peach and bat motif forming the popular Chinese rebus, Fu Shou Shuang Quan, "Happiness and long life, both in perpetuity".

(US$7,000-9,000)

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