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Lot Essay
During the Qianlong period, the form was fittingly adopted in a variety of scholars' objects such as wrist-rests. Examples of this scroll-form are illustrated in Jadeware (III), The Complete Collection of Treasures of The Palace Museum, Commercial Press, 1995, p. 193, no. 158, from the Qing Court Collection; and the other is illustrated by M. Wilson, Chinese Jades, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2004, pp. 64-65, illustrated together with an example of spinach-green jade.
The four-character inscription is in reference to peaches grown in the mythical garden of Xiwangwu, the Queen Mother of the West, where the fruit ripens over thousands of years and bestow immortality to those who consumes it.
The four-character inscription is in reference to peaches grown in the mythical garden of Xiwangwu, the Queen Mother of the West, where the fruit ripens over thousands of years and bestow immortality to those who consumes it.