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PROPERTY FROM THE QUEK KIOK LEE COLLECTION
2945
A FINE YIXING PEACH-FORM BRUSH WASHER
REPUBLIC PERIOD
The washer is potted as half a peach supported on a finely modelled seeded lotus pod, a
chestnut and a baby aubergine. Lying in the interior is a melon seed and a half-walnut.
The base is incised with eight characters, yaochi jieshi, liaodian baogong, a poetic inscription
followed by the character, Yuan, and a stamped, Chen Mingyuan, square seal mark.
3 ‰ in. (9.9 cm.) wide
HK$150,000-250,000 US$20,000-32,000

PROVENANCE
Acquired in Singapore, 23 June 1972
‘Yaochi’ refers to the jade pond where, according to the Daoist legend, the residence
of Xiwangmu (the Queen Mother of the West) is located and supposedly where the
peaches of immortality grow.
base
ᄓ㛑
ᤪ५ ೞ⧂Ͳ㡤㲍㑑♟⊐ᣤ᧙ᙉྌͲ⁦⓺᧾
ᄓᝳǸ⇬ᮆ⢙༰Ǯ㚅ᬆㆃ࠻ǹ㯪㉃卿ⶔǸ㙭ǹໃԆ㟊Ǹ㪀㺩㙭ǹ❨ᝧᙹ⛌ǯ
ϝᬝ
ჺ ᝲ ᚚ㐟ᙻᙲ࠼஽
㛖ݐ◶Ⅷ⻦

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