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132 The combination of the gourd, 葫蘆 hulu, and bat, 蝠 fu, represents
A FINE SMALL WHITE JADE ‘DOUBLE-GOURD AND BAT’ the wish ‘May you have both blessings and wealth’, 福祿雙全 fulu
BRUSHWASHER shuangquan.
Qianlong
Delicately carved in the form of a double gourd separated by an The present lot is particularly charming, with a finely hollowed interior,
auspicious bat, the interior of the brush washer hollowed and the restrained carving and elegant low feet. Compare a very similar white
exterior crisply carved with a single leafy sprig, supported on three jade double-gourd brushwasher illustrated in The Complete Collection
short tapering feet, the stone of even pale white tone with some of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Small Refined Articles of the
minor cloudy inclusions, wood stand. Study, Shenzhen, 2009, p.201, pl.189. See also a related double-
7cm (2 3/4in) long (2). gourd washer with a bat illustrated in Compendium of Collections in
the Palace Museum: Jade 10: Qing Dynasty, Beijing, 2011, no.194
£5,000 - 8,000 CNY46,000 - 73,000 and another example with similar low feet is illustrated ibid., vol.9,
HK$55,000 - 88,000 no.75. Compare also another related washer, from the Anthony K.W.
Cheung collection, illustrated by H.K.F.Hui and T.Y.Pang, Virtuous
清乾隆 白玉福祿雙全葫蘆洗 Treasures: Chinese Jades for the Scholar’s Table, Hong Kong, 2007,
pl.69.
Provenance: a distinguished English private collection,
and thence by descent A similar white and russet jade double-gourd brushwasher, Qianlong,
was sold in these rooms on 6 November 2014, lot 324.
來源： 顯貴英國私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今

Image courtesy of the Palace Museum,
Beijing