Property from the De An Tang Collection

A pale green and russet jade 'carp' carving

Mark and period of Qianlong

德安堂藏玉

清乾隆 青白玉魚躍龍門擺件 《乾隆年製》款

deftly carved in openwork in the form of a carp fish modelled with raised mouth, puckered lips and broad curling pectoral fins, leaping out of turbulent waves besides jagged rockwork, and exhaling swirls of lingzhi-shaped vౠapour, the stone of a celadon tone with russet inclusions, inscribed next to the rockwork with a four-character mark

19.5 cm