A WHITE AND RUSSET JADE 'TWIN FISH' GROUP QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

deftly carved as a pair of conjoined carp with curled tails and mouths open forming apertures, the plump bodies detailed with renderings of finely detailed fins and scales, the greyish-white stone with attractive russet inclusions and markings

An Exhibition of Fine Jade, Spink & Son Ltd., London, 1981, cat. no. 32.

There are tiny chips to the fins and tail fins. There is also a tiny chip to the mouth of one fish.
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A jade double-fish pendant in the Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, is illustrated in Richard E. Strassberg and Suzanne Haney Foster, Chinese Jade. The Image from Within, Pasadena, 1986, pl. 169. See also a carving in the form of a carp with a smaller fish at its side, included in the exhibition Exquisite Jade Carving, Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1996, cat. no. 99.