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PROPERTY FROM THE DE AN TANG COLLECTION 清乾隆 青白玉雙魚擺件
A MASSIVE CELADON JADE ‘TWIN FISH’ 來源：
GROUP, 紐約蘇富比1991年5月28日，編號54
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
29 cm 展覽：
《玉緣：德安堂藏玉》，永壽宮，故宮博物院，
PROVENANCE 北京，2004年，編號84
Sotheby’s New York, 28th May 1991, lot 54.
EXHIBITED
A Romance with Jade: From the De An Tang Collection,
Yongshougong, Palace Museum, Beijing, 2004, cat. no. 84.

HK$ 800,000-1,500,000
US$ 103,000-192,000

Superbly carved to capture a dynamic sense of movement, 巧琢雙魚，活潑生動，惟肖惟妙。大者鱖魚，乘風破
this piece is notable for its outstanding composition of a 浪，鯉魚相伴，曲身欲躍。玉雕構圖卓絕，以風吹蘆
mandarin fish swimming alongside of a smaller carp through 葦呼應鯉魚弧線，另一面則以水波襯托鱖魚之美，一
meandering weed and cresting waves. The curve created
by the coiling carp – which appears to be ready for a leap 側豐富、一側含蓄，盡見藝匠巧思。
– is carefully balanced by the leafy weed. The other side,
with the mandarin fish elegantly raised by sinuous waves, 鯉和鱖，分別喻意富及貴，雖是祥瑞，飾此兩魚者頗
complement the overall design with a sense of tranquillity. 稀。參考麥雅理藏玉雕雙鯉，曾展於《Chinese Jades
This auspicious combination of the mandarin fish and from Han to Ching》，亞洲協會，紐約，1980年，編號
the carp, symbolising prosperity and wealth, however, is 90。另見一蓮花鱖魚擺件，售於香港佳士得2014年11
relatively rare. Compare a jade carving of two carps among 月26日，編號3347。
waves, in the collection of Brian S. McElney, and exhibited in
Chinese Jades from Han to Ch’ing, Asia Society, New York,
1980, cat. no. 90; and another depicting a single mandarin
fish swimming through flowering lotus and trailing leaves,
sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 26th November 2014, lot 3347.

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