Each side is moulded with a peach-shaped panel that is decorated in the fifteenth century style with two bats in flight around fruiting peach branches. The panel is surrounded by a flower scroll meander, while the narrow sides are decorated with lingzhi scroll interrupted by the bottom terminal of the arched ruyi sceptre handles. The base has an apocryphal six-character Qianlong seal mark.
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high

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The lots were acquired in Beijing in the 1950s, when the collector served as an official at a Nordic Embassy. Following the trend of many Western diplomats stationed in Beijing at the time, he started to collect Chinese works of art to furnish his family home. The pieces were acquired from local dealers and shops and special attention was paid to beauty and elegance, which are a true testament to the collector’s discerning eye and taste.