A FINE WHITE JADE BRUSHWASHER
A FINE WHITE JADE BRUSHWASHER

18TH CENTURY

細節
A FINE WHITE JADE BRUSHWASHER
18TH CENTURY
Well carved in the form of a large lingzhi fungus head borne on a gnarled stem which extends around the sides bearing leaves and smaller lingzhi fungi, with two smiling boys clinging to either edge of the rim, their hair tied in buns on the sides of their heads, one clutching a ruyi sceptre in his right hand, the other holding a stem of wannianqing in his left hand, the finely polished stone of even white color
7 in. (17.8 cm.) long, wood stand
來源
Stanley Charles Nott Collection.
出版
Stanley C. Nott, Chinese Jades in the Stanley Charles Nott Collection, 1942, pp. 378-9, pl. LXXXIV, no. 74.

拍品專文

Lingzhi fungus and wannianqing form a rebus, 'may your wishes come true for ten thousand years'. The two boys may represent double joy, and therefore the doubling of wishes.