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QI BAISHI (1864-1957)
FRUIT AND VEGETABLES
A Chinese painting, ink and colour on paper, inscribed and
signed Jie Shan Yin Guan zhu zhe zhi, with one artist’s seal
reading Bai Shi Weng, framed and glazed, with a frame
maker’s paper label to the reverse, 92cm x 33.5cm.
£20,000-50,000
Provenance: formerly from a French deceased estate.
Chinese lily bulbs, known as baihe in Chinese, are white skinless
ball-shaped roots which contain starchy scale-like sections.
They have a slightly perfumed smell, crunchy texture and a sweet
taste. There is a homophone of baihe which has the meaning of
‘hundreds of years together’. With two little bumblebees, as in
this painting, it symbolises ‘may you have a wonderful married
life for hundreds of years’.
齊白石（1864-1957）百年好合 設色紙本 鏡框
款識：借山吟館主者製。
鈐印：白石翁。
來源：購於法國遺產拍賣。附香港畫框店元記製造標
籤。

Label to the reverse