LATE MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

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A CARVED JADE PEACH-FORM WATER POT
LATE MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY
The water pot is carved as half of a peach with its interior thinly hollowed forming the container. One side detailed in openwork with a leafy branch that extends with smaller branches to embrace the underside forming the base. The burnt stone of opaque white and beige tone.
3 7/8 in. (10 cm.) long, wood stand

Provenance

A French private collection

Exhibited

London, 85th Anniversary Exhibition of Chinese Jades from Tang to Qing, Marchant, 2010, p. 13 no. 4

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Lot Essay

The inspiration of this half-peach form with its branch forming the handle was probably derived from early examples such as the jade washer dating to the Yuan period, excavated in 1960 in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, and illustrated in Zhongguo Yuqi Quanji, vol. 5, Hebei meishu chubanshe, 1993, p. 126, no. 188. A late Ming dynasty peach-form example is also illustrated, ibid., p. 212, no. 299.

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