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GRAND POISSON EN JADE CELADON ET ROUILLE
CHINE, DYNASTIE MING (1368-1644)
Finement sculpté de manière réaliste, le grand poisson tient des branchages PROVENANCE:
de lotus dans sa gueule. Ses nageoires sont finement incisées. La pierre Previously in an English private collection.
présente quelques inclusions de couleur rouille. Christie's London, South Kensington, 16 May 2012, lot 553.
Longueur: 20,3 cm. (8 in.), socle
This exquisite carving is rich in auspicious symbolism. The word for fish in
€40,000-60,000 US$47,000-70,000 Chinese,yu, provides a homonym for 'abundance' while the lotus it grasps in
£37,000-54,000
its mouth,he, provides a rebus for 'harmony'. This carving therefore promises
A LARGE CELADON AND RUSSET JADE FIGURE OF A FISH abundant peace. This piece compares very closely with a jade carving of a
CHINA, MING DYNASTY (1368-1644) carp amongst waves from the B.S. McElney Collection, illustrated in J. Watt,
明 青玉帶皮銜荷魚擺件 Chinese Jades from the Ming to the Ch'ing, The Asia Society, 1980, p. 103, no.
來源: 90, illustration on p. 106; and a carp amongst lotus as illustrated in B. Morgan,
英國私人舊藏 Chinese Jades from the Kirknorton Collection, London, 1995, no. 75.
倫敦佳士得，南肯辛頓，2012年5月16日，拍品553號
See a slightly smaller (16.5 cm.) pale celadon and russet jade carving of a fish
holding a lotus, dated 18th century, sold in Christie's Hong Kong, 26 November
2014, lot 3347.

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