千年桃实大如斗Thousand-Year Peaches (on card)

A small painting on card. On the right stands a garden rock, rubbed in with dark and pale ink, washed pale blue on its faces and heavily dotted with moss along its edges. Behind it a peach branch leans out, its stems in pale ink and its long narrow leaves in dark green touched with mineral blue. Five or six peaches, high and low, are dabbed in rouge and vermilion without outline and flecked with fine darker dots, red and ripe against the cool grey-blue of the rock. Two columns of calligraphy fill the left half, so that writing and painting share the card.

The inscription reads “Thousand-year peaches, large as a measure of grain; eat one and live a thousand years”, dated winter 2024: the peach of the immortals, a birthday wish for long life.

此为卡纸小品。右侧湖石一方，以浓淡墨皴擦，石面敷淡青，石棱苔点浓重；石后桃枝斜出，枝干淡墨，叶片墨绿狭长，间以石青。桃实五六枚，上下分布，以胭脂朱红没骨点染，表面以浓色点出细点，红艳饱满，与青灰的湖石冷暖相映。左侧两行题字，占据半幅，书画相参，章法别致。

左侧题“千年桃实大如斗，一食可得千年寿”，款署甲辰冬月。桃为仙果，以寓长寿安康，多用于为长者祝寿。