Various Owners
A fine white jade double-gourd brushwasher
18th century
The even pale green stone skilfully pierced and carved in the form of a double-gourd issuing from a gnarled leafy stem, with leaves on the underside and rim, naturalistically conveyed, showing the tendrils and branches crossing over each other, the veining picked out with intricate incised lines, worked with two bats, one on the underside, one on the upper surface, all vividly conveyed on the lustrous smoothly polished stone, the underside with a faint russet tinge skilfully incorporated into the depiction of the stems, fitted wood stand finely carved with rockwork and lingzhi.
15.5cm (6in) long.
The even pale green stone skilfully pierced and carved in the form of a double-gourd issuing from a gnarled leafy stem, with leaves on the underside and rim, naturalistically conveyed, showing the tendrils and branches crossing over each other, the veining picked out with intricate incised lines, worked with two bats, one on the underside, one on the upper surface, all vividly conveyed on the lustrous smoothly polished stone, the underside with a faint russet tinge skilfully incorporated into the depiction of the stems, fitted wood stand finely carved with rockwork and lingzhi.
15.5cm (6in) long.
Estimate:
HK$ 650,000 - 700,000
US$ 84,000 - 90,000
£55,000 - 60,000
US$ 84,000 - 90,000
£55,000 - 60,000
Footnotes
- The auspicious combination of a double-gourd and bats stands for the blessing 'May you have both blessings and wealth', fulu shuangquan. Furthermore, the network of vines and combination of larger and smaller gourds symbolises the wish for ceaseless generations of male descendants, guadie mianmian.
For a similar example in the Palace Museum, Beijing, see Zhongguo Yuqi Quanji, Vol.6, no.294, pg.204. See also an example illustrated by Davidson, Jades of the T.B.Walker Collection at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, no.200, p.150-2.
十八世紀 白玉葫蘆筆洗
Category: Asian Art / Chinese Works of Art
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