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Lot details Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 China, probably 1875-1908, or early in the Republic period (before 1930). Of rectangular form, the slightly flaring sides supported on four short bracket feet and finely painted with the spreading branches of a peach tree bearing nine fruits, five pink and white blossoms, and lingzhi mushrooms. The slender leaves decorated in two shades of green, one side with two iron-red bats, and the rim with iron-red flowerheads borne on scrolling vines. The base with an iron-red six-character mark da Qing Guangxu nianzhi and probably of the period. Provenance: English trade. Condition: Very good condition with minor wear and manufacturing irregularities. The interior with distinct areas of calcification indicating extended use as a water basin. The wood stand is slightly warped and shows a fine, naturally grown patina with faint age cracks. Weight: 574 g (excl. stand) and 734 g (incl. stand) Dimensions: Length 19.5 cm Please click here to read the full description With a fitted and finely carved hardwood stand, possibly Hongmu, dating from the late Qing dynasty or early Republic period. (2) Peaches are perhaps China’s most auspicious fruit, having a long tradition as omens of longevity and harbingers of happiness, and flowering peach branches are believed to ward off evil. In the Shi Jing [Classic of Poetry], the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry, edited by Confucius (551-479 BC), the peach is used as a metaphor for thriving marriage and family. The poet Tao Qian (365-427) tells of a fisherman who, when following the source of a stream in a peach orchard – 'Peach Blossom Spring' – through a crevice in a rock, discovered a paradisiacal world. A peach orchard is also the setting for the oath of brotherhood sworn by the three main protagonists of the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one of whom, the Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) general Guan Yu, was deified and worshipped as Emperor Guan or God of War for near two millennia. The ‘peaches of immortality’, which are said to grow in the garden of Xi Wangmu, the Queen Mother of the West, flower only once every three thousand years, take three thousand years to bear fruit and another three thousand years to ripen, and are then offered in a banquet to the immortals. Dongfang Shuo, a witty and clever Han dynasty scholar, who became the hero of many legends, is reported to have stolen peaches of immortality and thus to have become immortal. And the same feat is told of the mischievous Monkey King Sun Wukong, hero of the novel Journey to the West, who subsequently was recruited by Guanyin (Bodhisattva of Compassion) to accompany the Tang dynasty (618-907) monk Xuanzang on his trip to India to obtain Buddhist sutras. Auction result comparison: Type: Related Auction: Sotheby’s New York, 24 June 2020, lot 801 Price: USD 30,000 or approx. EUR 32,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing Description: A Large Famille-Rose 'Nine Peaches' Circular Box and Cover, Republic Period Expert remark: Compare the related subject. Note the apocryphal Guangxu mark and dating to the Republic period. 点此阅读中文翻译 (Chinese Translation) 光緒款粉彩九桃花缸，或爲光緒時期 中國，約1875-1908年，或者民國初期（1930年之前）。長方體，上略大於底部，四短足。通體繪桃樹一株，樹幹茁壯，枝上結蟠桃九個，桃樹旁襯一簇桃花。渲染手法繪畫桃實，桃實飾彩濃厚，成功地表現出成熟桃實的嬌豔色彩，構圖疏密有致。樹枝之間飛舞著兩隻礬紅釉蝙蝠。底足內礬紅釉六字“大清光緒年製“款，或爲該時期。 來源：英國古玩交易。 品相：狀況極好，有輕微磨損和製造缺陷。內部有明顯的鈣化區域。木架略微彎曲，自然包漿，並帶有年代裂紋。 重量：574 克 (不含底座) ，734 克 (含底座) 尺寸：長 19.5 厘米 配有一個精美雕刻的硬木架子，可能是紅木，可以追溯到清末或民初。(2) 拍賣結果比較： 形制：相近 拍賣：紐約蘇富比，2020年6月24日，lot 801 價格：USD 30,000（相當於今日EUR 32,500） 描述：民國粉彩九桃圖捧盒《大清光緒年製》仿款 專家評論：比較相近的主題。請注意光緒仿款，但為民國時期。