Page 10 - Marchant Ninety Jades For 90 Years

一 1. Brushwasher, bixi, of ruyi-form on five slightly splayed feet, carved as a fungus head and incised on the sides with scrolls, the flat rim

carved with a single inner ridge, the stone pale celadon.

如 4 ¼ inches, 10.8 cm long; 1 ⅜ inches, 3.5 cm high.
意 Qianlong, 1736-1795.
雲 Wood stand.
式

洗 • From an important French collection.

青 • A related ruyi-form brushwasher from the Chang Qing Guan collection is illustrated by Ip Yee in Chinese Jade Carving, An
白 Exhibition Jointly Presented by the Urban Council, Hong Kong and the Min Chiu Society, Organised by the Hong Kong
玉 Museum of Art, 1983, no. 228, pp. 254/5.

• The sacred fungus, lingzhi, resembles the head of a wish-granting wand, ruyi, and has the same meaning of ‘as you wish’. It is

乾 also known as the fungus of immortality and is believed to grow on the Isle of the Blessed, Peng Lai.

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