CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, ÉPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)

Details

RARE RINCE-PINCEAUX EN JADE BLANC ET ROUILLE
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, ÉPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)
En forme d'une pêche de longévité et reposant sur quatre petits pieds, il est flanqué de deux prises latérales en forme de bouton de fleur de lotus sculpté. Le bec verseur est orné d'une chauve-souris en vol. Le pourtour de la lèvre est rehaussé sur l'arrière de branches feuillagées sculptées.
Hauteur : 4 cm. (1 5⁄8 in.) ; Longueur : 12 cm. (4 3⁄4 in.)

Provenance

Acquired on the French art market, Paris, 28 May 1984.

Further details

A RARE WHITE AND RUSSET JADE 'PEACH AND BAT' WASHER
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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Lot Essay

The openwork decoration of a bat and the longevity peach represents the rebus fushou shuangquan (May you possess both blessings and longevity) while the lotus (he) provides a rebus for harmony. White jade washers of this elegant form and pure colour are well sought-after. The present washer may be compared to a white jade washer of similar form with ring handles and raised on four cloud-form feet, dated to mid-Qing dynasty, illustrated in Zhongguo Yuqi Quanji (The complete collection of Chinese jade), vol. 6, Shijiazhuang, 1991, p. 219, no. 320. See a nearly identical white jade brushwasher, dated 18th century, of a slightly larger size (13.7cm), sold in Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 April 2014, lot 3037.

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