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A BLACK AND GRAY DOUBLE ‘PRUNUS’ VASE, 清乾隆 十八世紀末 灰墨玉雕梅竹紋椿式雙 A LARGE SPINACH JADE ‘THREE FRIENDS 清乾隆 碧玉雕歲寒三友紋椿式雙聯花插
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD, LATE 聯花插 OF WINTER’ DOUBLE VASE, QING DYNASTY, 來源
18TH CENTURY QIANLONG PERIOD 倫敦蘇富比1994年12月6日，編號81
wood stand (2) 來源 wood stand (2) 英國私人收藏
Height 3½ in., 8.9 cm 加奈伯爵及伯爵夫人，庫朗斯，法國 Height 6⅛ in., 15.6 cm

PROVENANCE PROVENANCE
Collection of the Marquis and Marquise de Ganay, Sotheby’s London, 6th December 1994, lot 81.
Courances, France. English Private Collection.
This combination of bamboo, zhu, and prunus, mei, ⊖ $ 15,000-20,000
represents the unity of a husband and wife. Together with
lingzhi, a symbol of longevity, and the bat, fu, happiness, this
vibrant scene forms the rebus fu shou shuang quan, ‘Wishing
you long life and happiness.’
Compare a similar vase from the The Woolf Collection of
Chinese Jade, London, 2013, pl. 72; another, bearing a
Qianlong four-character seal mark, in the Compendium of
Collections in the Palace Museum. Jade, vol. 8: Qing dynasty,
Beijing, 2011, pl. 186; and another related trunk-form vessel,
carved with prunus branches in high relief, in Chinese Jades
from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong,
1996, pl. 118.
⊖ $ 10,000-15,000

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