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The quality of this stone, skilfully accentuated through the 成器表面光潤素淨，借皮沁作福壽靈芝，祥瑞之喻尤合美
finely finished plain surfaces and selective inclusion of the 玉之質。清代工藝品善用動植物紋飾，取其諧音祝頌吉
russet skin, perfectly complements the auspicious wishes 祥。蝙蝠、靈芝寓意「福至心靈」，紋飾多見於清代玉
represented through the peach, bat and lingzhi branches.
器，時配飾壽桃。
Animals and plants whose names were homophonous to words
with favourable meanings were commonly employed in Qing 可比較桃形洗一例，側雕莖葉長盤，添飾瑞蝠成對，Alan
decorative arts. A peach (tao) with bat (fu) and lingzhi fungus
represents the wish, ‘May your heart be filled with intelligence and Simone Hartman 伉儷雅藏，錄於 Robert Kleiner，
with blessings arrive (fuzhi xinling); a motif popular on jade 《Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and
carvings of the period which could be depicted with or without Simone Hartman》，香港，1996年，圖版107；另比較
a peach.
一白玉「福壽延年」瓜棱式洗，口沿雕有一蝠，口銜「
Compare a peach-shape washer, carved to the sides with 壽」字，字結緞帶，福壽紋飾橫跨器口，器身兩側帶螭龍
a long stalk and leaves along with two bats, from the Alan 耳，先後售於倫敦佳士得1995年12月4日，編號272，香
and Simon Hartman collection, illustrated in Robert Kleiner,
港佳士得1999年4月26日，編號509，及香港蘇富比2013
Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone
Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 107; and another of quatrefoil 年10月8日，編號3038。
section, the rim carved with a bat grasping a beribboned
shou character in its mouth extending across the width of the
vessel, flanked by a pair of chilong handles, sold at Christie’s
London, 4th December 1995, lot 272, again at Christie’s Hong
Kong, 26th April 1999, lot 509; and a third time in our Hong
Kong rooms, 8th October 2013, lot 3038.

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