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A CELADON JADE ‘CRAB AND MILLET’ GROUP
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
with a broad rounded carapace carved with naturalistic bumps and a ridged edge, two conical eyes emerging from the front of the shell, the eight
spindly legs extending to the sides and curving under at the joints, the plates of their exoskeleton clearly defined, the powerful foreclaws meeting in
front of the face and grasping a millet stalk, the stem of the millet extending under the body and brushing against the ribbed abdomen of the crab, the
stone a mossy green color with patches of russet and scattered icy white inclusions
清康熙 青玉雕歲歲和諧擺件
Length 5 in., 12.7 cm
$ 10,000-15,000
PROVENANCE 來源
Alvin Lo Oriental Art, Ltd., New York. 春源齋，紐約
EXHIBITED 展覽
Auspicious Jade Animals, Alvin Lo Oriental Art, Ltd., 《Auspicious Jade Animals》，春源齋，紐約，2001年，編號18
New York, 2001, cat. no. 18. 出版
LITERATURE 羅伯特•楊門，《楊門藏玉：中國玉器·新石器時代至清代》，
Robert P. Youngman, The Youngman Collection of 芝加哥，2008年，圖版137
Chinese Jades from Neolithic to Qing, Chicago, 2008,
pl. 137.

The present carving forms a rebus for harmony, hexie, symbolized by the crab, xie, with millet, he or sui. It can also form the rebus suisui
hexie (‘May you have a harmonious marriage year after year’).

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