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A BURNT JADE ‘LEAPING CARP’ VASE
Qianlong
Carved as scaly fish-dragon and a small fish with detailed horns and
undulating tails, leaping from crashing waves in pursuit of the flaming
pearl amongst scrolling clouds, the stone of a milky tone with mottled
inclusions, wood stand.
16cm (6 1/4in) high (2).
£8,000 - 12,000
CNY69,000 - 100,000
清乾隆 雞骨白玉魚龍幻化花插
Provenance: an English private collection, and thence by descent
來源：英國私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今
Recalling the transformation of the carp into a dragon whilst swimming
upstream in the Yellow River and leaping up the rapids at the Dragon
Gate, the present carving represents the transformation of a scholar into
a high official as he passes the Imperial civil examinations.
A related jade vase carved with a dragon-carp and its young, Qianlong,
in the the Victoria and Albert Museum, is illustrated in Chinese Jade
Through The Ages, London, 1975, p.128 pl.421. See also a yellow jade
dragon-carp and young vase, Qianlong, which was sold at Sotheby’s
Hong Kong, 8 April 2014, lot 3061.
172 | BONHAMS For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
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