The globular body rising to a tall cylindrical neck, enamelled with a gnarled tree trunk emerging from pierced rockwork issuing two asymmetric peach branches extending halfway around the body and wrapping around the neck, the fruiting boughs with pink blossoms edged in white, the nine peaches depicted in varying degrees of ripeness, in rose-pink deepening to darker pink spots and patches, the green-enamelled leaves shaded in turquoise, all amid five soaring iron-red bats and between lingzhi, grasses and foliage springing from a pale green ground and a pale pink spearhead border around the gilt rim, the turquoise-enamelled base with a sealmark of Jiaqing. Period: Republic (1912-1949). Height c. 32.4 cm.
Provenance:
Swedish private collection, acquired during the 1950s.