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A WHITE JADE DOUBLE-GOURD ‘HEHE ERXIAN’ The present lot is laden with auspicious symbolism and puns. The
VASE AND COVER double-gourd is associated with containing the elixirs of immortality
Mid Qing Dynasty and is the attribute of the Daoist Immortal Li Tieguai. The bats,
Masterfully carved and well hollowed as a double-gourd vase resting on pronounced bian fu (蝙蝠), are a pun for ‘good fortune’ (fu 福).
a rocky base, two boys with jovial expressions carved around the exterior, One of the boys carries a lotus, pronounced he (荷) which is also a
one kneeling to receive the other descending on ruyi-head clouds and pun for ‘harmony’ (he 和). The boys themselves represent the Hehe
carrying long sprigs of lotus blossoms and stems curling around the Erxian (和合二仙), or the Two Immortals of Harmony and Unity.
vase carved with a further four bats, the lid carved with a curling stem,
the softly-polished stone of an even white tone, wood stand. Compare with a related yellow jade vase with children, Qianlong,
17cm (6 5/8in) high. (3). illustrated in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum:
Jade, vol 10, Beijing, 2010, p.59, no.32.
£15,000 - 25,000
CNY130,000 - 220,000 See also a related white jade ‘Hehe Erxian’ vase, 18th century,
which was sold at Sotheby’s London, 11 May 2016, lot 104.
清中期 白玉雕和合二仙葫蘆蓋瓶

Provenance: Louis Joseph Ltd., London, 25 February 1975
Lowenthal Collection, no.61

來源：1975年2月25日，購於倫敦Louis Joseph Ltd.
Lowenthal藏品，编號61

(invoice)

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.