Lot 3504. A soft-paste white-glazed peach-form brush washer, Qianlong incised six-character seal mark and of the period (1736-1795); 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm.) long. Estimate HKD 400,000 - HKD 500,000. Price Realized HKD 500,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013

The washer is modelled in peach form with subtly incurving sides. One side of the washer moulded with a large peach growing from a gnarled leafy branch. The milky-white transparent glaze with slight crackle. Incised on the underside with the reign mark in seal script, box.

Provenance: Christie's London, 8 June 1987, lot 48
An American Private Collection.

Exhibited: London, S. Marchant & Son, Recent Acquisitions, 16-25 June 2005, no. 43.

Christie's. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art (Including The Su Zhu An Collection of Inkstones), Hong Kong, 27 November 2013