Provenance 來源:|Acquired by the previous owner in Hong Kong, during the 1970s|Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 October 2010, lot 2816|1970年代得於香港|香港蘇富比，2010年10月8日，編號2816|Monkey, 猴 hou, is a pun for high-ranking noble equivalent to a marquis 侯 hou. A monkey holding a peach is also symbolic of longevity as it is holding the fruit of immortality. When paired together with peaches, 壽桃 shoutao, they form the auspicious homophone of 'sacred monkey offers longevity', 靈猴獻壽 linghou xianshou.|「猴」與「侯」諧音，寓意功成封侯。桃是壽桃，寓意吉祥長壽。猴與桃的結合有「靈猴獻壽」之意，象徵加官進爵，長壽延年。