Carved from a single block of very pale celadon nephrite jade of even tone into an elegant shape with slope walls and wide rim rested on low flat footring, perhaps intended for the scholar table. The center elaborately carved into a leafy peach branch with two fruits and a bat hoovering on top. The rim features a classic scroll of incised keyfrets. The exterior wall displays three archaistic masks evenly spaced on the rice pattern back ground in low relief. The elegant shape and decorative hint to an 18th century date, mid Qing dynasty.
14cm(5 1/2 in)
清中 白玉大筆洗, 平口,口沿陰刻回字紋,下折,腹部漸收,淺圈足;玉洗中心精雕凸出倆蟠桃和一蝙蝠,蟠桃帶枝葉,桃葉輾轉反側,極其逼真靈動.器壁打磨乾淨整齊,外壁均勻分佈三個饕餮紋并飾一圈 凸起谷丁紋.器形規整,精雕細琢.為文房之美器佳品