CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIIÈME-XIXÈME SIÈCLE

Details

GROUPE DE CRAPAUD ET GRENADES EN JADE CELADON PALE ET ROUILLE
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIIÈME-XIXÈME SIÈCLE
Longueur : 12,5 cm. (4 7⁄8 in.)

Provenance

Previously from a Chinese Private Collection.
Spink & Son valuation, London, 10 March 1949, no. 18.

Literature

Stanley Charles Nott, Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages, Charles E. Tuttle Company, Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, 1962, p. 92, pl. LXXXI.

Further details

A PALE CELADON AND RUSSET JADE CARVING OF A TOAD WITH POMEGRANATES
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY

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Lot Essay

The combination of the three-leg toad and pomegranate is a visual pun with the rebus dingcai liangwang, meaning (abundance of children and wealth). While the pomegranate symbolizes fertility and an abundance of children, the toad is associated with prosperity.

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