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PROPERTY FROM THE MORGAN FOUNDATION COLLECTION everlasting. The peaches, a fruit alleged to grow in the PROPERTY OF A NEW JERSEY PRIVATE COLLECTOR Vases carved in extremely high relief and with openwork
A PALE CELADON JADE RUYI SCEPTER realm of the immortals, represent longevity. Altogether, this A PALE CELADON JADE ‘DRAGON’ VASE dragon motifs were popular in the 19th century. Compare a
ruyi scepter expresses the wish that the owner will have a
similarly designed vase, also of flattened baluster form, from
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY fortunate, long and harmonious life. QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY the Brooklyn Museum, New York, sold in these rooms, 17th
the ruyi-shaped head finely carved in relief with a bat soaring Scepters of related form and subject include one sold in of flattened baluster form supported on a pedestal foot and March 2021, lot 28; one of fangzun form from the Allen O.
towards a fruiting peach branch, the arched shaft bisected these rooms, 19th-20th March 2013, lot 413; another sold rising to a waisted neck set with a pair of scroll handles, a Battle Collection also sold in these rooms, 17th March 2021,
by a rectangular central panel deftly carved with further in these rooms, 6th June 1992, lot 348; and a third with large dragon carved in openwork scaling one of the narrow lot 183; and a lobed gu-form vase sold first in these rooms,
peach branches and terminating in a rounded finial similarly the shaft ornately carved as a branch with lingzhi and leafy sides, its tail sweeping against a rocky outcrop at the base, 23rd-24th May 1974, lot 122, and later at Christie’s New
decorated with a peach bough, the reverse plain aside from a stems sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28th April 1996, lot 8. its paws grasping the vessel’s sides and the drifting high- York, 2nd June 1989, lot 321.
spray of leaves at the central panel, the highly polished stone See also a similarly composed spinach-green jade scepter relief clouds, the face peering over the vessel’s shoulder
an even pale celadon tone with icy inclusions inlaid with white jade plaques containing the sanduo, with a with the eyes fixed on a ‘flaming pearl’, the opposite side $ 20,000-30,000
Length 18½ in., 47 cm Jiaqing reign mark and of the period, sold in our Hong Kong with a small openwork chilong wrapping around the vessel’s
rooms, 9th October 2007, lot 1311. lower body and issuing plumes of vapor from its mouth, one
PROVENANCE of the broad sides with a blossoming peony carved in high 清十九世紀 青白玉雕蒼龍教子紋瓶
Christie’s Hong Kong, 1st May 2000, lot 660. $ 40,000-60,000 relief, the stone a whitish pale green with a few areas of icy
Christie’s London, 15th May 2012, lot 62. inclusions 來源：
This ruyi scepter is endowed with auspicious meaning 清十九世紀 青白玉雕福壽雙全如意 Height 7½ in., 19 cm Nils Nessim (1916-1974) 收藏
through the depiction of nine peaches together with bats. PROVENANCE 紐約蘇富比1981年2月26至27日，編號404
The word for bat in Chinese is fu, which is a homophone 來源：
for ‘fortune’. The word for nine, jiu, is a homophone for 香港佳士得2000年5月1日，編號 660 Collection of Nils Nessim (1916-1974).
倫敦佳士得2012年5月15日，編號 62 Sotheby’s New York, 26th-27th February 1981, lot 404.

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