Description
the vessel formed as a carp metamorphosing into a dragon as it leaps out of waves with its gaping mouth open forming the cavities of the vase, the stone of a deep spinach-green tone with small areas of brown and dark green mottling
Dimensions
18cm high
Footnote
Provenance:
Private Scottish collection; purchased from William Clayton Fine Chinese Jade, Porcelain and Works of Art, London, in the 1960s and 1970s.
Note:
For a similar 'dragon-carp' jade vase from the Thompson-Schwab collection, see Sotheby's sale in their London rooms on 9th November 2016, lot 9, sale L16211.