Junkunc: Chinese Jade Carvings
Junkunc: Chinese Jade Carvings
Auction Closed
September 22, 03:56 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
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
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
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 sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27th November 2007, lot 1564; another from the De An Tang Collection, attributed to the Qing dynasty and published in Yang Boda, ed., A Romance with Jade from the De An Tang Collection, Beijing, 2004, pl. 95; 'a goldfish, frog and red date' group, from the Tuyet Nguyet Collection, included in the exhibition Virtuous Treasures. Chinese Jades for the Scholar's Table, University Museum and Art Gallery, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2008, cat. no. 114; and a single goldfish, attributed to the Qianlong period, sold in our London rooms, 10th May 2017, lot 19.
相類玉雕可比一例十八世紀白玉連年有餘擺件,Alan 及 Simone Hartman 收藏,載於 Robert Kleiner,《Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman》,香港,1996年,圖版190,後售於香港佳士得2007年11月27日,編號1564;再比一清例,德安堂藏,見楊伯達編,《玉緣•德安堂藏玉》,故宮博物院,北京,2004年,圖版95;亦見一例,白玉雕蛙棗金魚,雪月藏,曾展於《閣有天珍•中國文房玉雕》,香港大學美術博物館,香港,2008年,編號114;另見一乾隆白玉金魚擺件,售於倫敦蘇富比2017年5月10日,編號19。