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Junkunc: Chinese Jade Carvings
New York |22 Sep 2020 | 09:30 AM EDT

Lot 215

A GREEN AND RUSSET JADE 'GOLDFISH' GROUP, 17TH / 18TH CENTURY
Estimate: 8,000 - 12,000 USD

A GREEN AND RUSSET JADE 'GOLDFISH' GROUP
17TH / 18TH CENTURY
十七 / 十八世紀 青玉雕連年有餘擺件

deftly carved in the round with a pair of frolicking goldfish grasping stalks of lotus blossom and lotus pod, each fish with a rotund
body extending to a furled fantail, the round bulging eyes set above a slightly lipped mouth, the smoothly polished stone with
russet-brown patches

Length 3⅝ in., 9.2 cm

Provenance
Nathan Bentz & Co., San Francisco, 3rd December 1948.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).

來源
Nathan Bentz & Co.，舊金山，1948年12月3日
史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

Catalogue Note
For related 'goldfish' carvings, see an 18th century white jade 'double fish' group from the collection of Alan and Simone Hartman,
illustrated in Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 190, and later

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