Lot Essay
Paired fish symbolize fertility and conjugal bliss, and they are also one of the Eight Buddhist symbols.
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THE PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN FAMILY
AN UNUSUAL GREYISH JADE TWIN-FISH VASE
18TH CENTURY
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AN UNUSUAL GREYISH JADE TWIN-FISH VASE
18TH CENTURY
Well carved as conjoined fish, their bodies tapering towards the outer sides and carved with scales with feather-like markings, their dorsal fins with detached scrolls and their heads with concentric eyes and hooked scrolls repeated on the waisted tails on which they stand, with key-fret borders at the rims, the semi-translucent stone of greyish tone with some opaque and russet mottling
9 in. (23 cm.) high
18TH CENTURY
Well carved as conjoined fish, their bodies tapering towards the outer sides and carved with scales with feather-like markings, their dorsal fins with detached scrolls and their heads with concentric eyes and hooked scrolls repeated on the waisted tails on which they stand, with key-fret borders at the rims, the semi-translucent stone of greyish tone with some opaque and russet mottling
9 in. (23 cm.) high