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七 7. Scroll weight, zhizhen, in the form of two peaches on a gnarled leafy branch with a large open-winged bat, the stone pale celadon.

3 ¾ inches, 9.5 cm long.
福 Qianlong, 1736-1795.
壽 Wood stand.
雙

全 • From a private English collection.
桃
形 • Purchased from John Sparks, 7th March 1967.
鎮 • A similar group, purchased from Douglas J. K. Wright, 13th June 1974, is illustrated by Jonathan Woolf, Angela McAteer
紙
& Colin Sheaf in The Woolf Collection of Chinese Jade, no. 81, p. 190, and is discussed by Carol Michaelson in her article

Introduction to the Sir John Woolf Jade Collection, Arts of Asia, November/December 2007, no. 360, p. 97; another is illustrated

青 by Zhao Gui Ling in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum, Jade, Vol. 9, Qing Dynasty, Gu Gong Inventory no. Gu
白 99844, no. 160, p. 170; a further example with peach, bat and finger citron, was included by Marchant in their 75th anniversary
玉 exhibition, Post-Archaic Chinese Jades from Private Collections, 2000, no. 42, p. 61.

• The peach, tao, together with the bat, fu, forms the rebus fu shou shuang quan, ‘Happiness and long life both in full measure’.

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