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56 A MINIATURE GREY LINGBI STONE
SCHOLAR’S ROCK
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)

The vertical, two-sided rock is pierced with
several openings of various size that enhance
the movement of the graceful profle.

3º in. (8.2 cm.) high, wood stand, Japanese
wood box (inscribed ‘Guanyin stone’)

$3,000-5,000

清 靈璧石供

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A YIXING PEACH-STONE SHAPED BRUSH
WASHER
DATED BY INSCRIPTION TO GENGZI YEAR,
CORRESPONDING TO 1840 OR 1900

The exterior of the washer is deeply scored
in imitation of a halved peach stone. The
fat mouth rim is inscribed with a cyclical
date, gengzi year, corresponding to 1840 or
1900, a signature, Aixian laoren (‘old man
who enjoys leisure’), and an inscription,
Xiwangmu ci Han Wu tao Xuanhedian
(‘Xiwangmu bestows a peach upon the
emperor Wudi of the Han dynasty’). The
unglazed body is of dark brown color in
contrast to the interior, which is covered in a
Jun-type glaze of milky grey-blue color.

7Ω in. (19.3 cm.) wide, wood stand, Japanese
wood box

$7,000-9,000

Aixian laoren (‘old man who enjoys leisure’)
appears to be a pottery artist active during the
Wanli and Jiajing periods, but works that bear
his signature were also found on later works
during the Qing dynasty. Compare the very
similar Yixing peach stone-form cup, of smaller
size, (10.1 cm. long), also with glazed interior
and with an identical inscription and an Aixian
laoren signature, in the Percival David Collection,
illustrated in Ru, Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing
Wares, rev. ed., 1999, no. A84, and col. pl. p. 4. The
entry notes that the inscription on the rim is in
three diferent scripts, and provides a translation
of the inscription. The cup is dated probably
Kangxi period. The entry also notes that the same
inscription appears on a late Ming ceramic object
and a jade object depicted in the Gu yu tu pu.
清庚子年(1840 或1900）
愛閑老人款宜興窯内挂釉桃式洗