清 和田白玉留皮雕童子獻壽擺件連硬木座

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英文品名：A QING HETIAN WHITE JADE CARVING, RETAILED WITH SKIN, OF A BOY OFFERING LONGEVITY, ON A HARDWOOD STAND 尺寸：W:10cm;H:7cm 和田白玉留皮。圓雕童子抱壽桃，童子側身倚桃，面目圓胖，笑容可掬；碩桃碩大，桃皮利用玉之橙黃皮色，雕出網狀桃實紋，旁襯小桃與竹葉。玉質溫白瑩潤。下配硬木根座。為清代吉祥題材文房擺件。壽桃傳說出自西王母蟠桃園：三千年一開花、三千年一結實，食之長生。《漢武帝內傳》載西王母以蟠桃五枚餉武帝，帝欲留核種之，王母言中國地熱，桃三千乃生。民間遂以碩桃祝壽，童子捧桃即童子獻壽。玉工留皮者，利用玉璞外橙黃玉皮巧作桃實網紋，謂之巧作，為清代玉作常見技藝。童子腦後一撮髮，謂娃娃髮，是雍正、乾隆以來玉雕娃娃的典型。 A Hetian white jade carving, retailed with the natural skin, of a boy embracing a peach. The boy leans against the large fruit, round-faced and smiling; the orange-brown skin is utilised on the peach to render a netted pattern, with smaller peaches and leaves at the side. The jade is warm and white. It is fitted with a hardwood root stand. The longevity peach comes from the Queen Mother of the West's peach orchard: it flowers once every three thousand years and ripens after another three thousand, and eating it confers immortality. In the Han Wudi Neizhuan the Queen Mother presents five peaches to Emperor Wu, who tries to keep the stones to plant in China; she replies that the climate there is too warm for the tree to mature. Hence the giant peach became a birthday offering, and a boy holding one is the boy presenting longevity. The jade cutter has retained the russet skin of the pebble to render the peach's netted rind, a clever-colour technique characteristic of Qing jade work. The small topknot is the classic baby's hair seen on Qing boy carvings from the Yongzheng-Qianlong reigns.

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