A rare small white jade 'boy riding a carp' group


Song Dynasty or laterDexterously carved as a boy clad in a long belted tunic, holding a ruyi sceptre leaning on his left shoulder, riding a carp, its body arched with the head and tail raised on either side, the fins and scales finely detailed, the stone of pure white tone, pierced at the centre, box. 3.3cm (1 5/16in) long (2).
|宋或以後 白玉雕童子戲魚Provenance:Christie's Paris, 11 June 2014, lot 152 (part lot)Durwin Tang Collection來源：佳士得巴黎，2014年6月11日，拍品編號152（之一）鄧德雍收藏A ruyi is a pun for 'as you wish' and a carp is a pun for 'abundance' or 'plenty'. A boy may symbolise the wish for male-continuity of the family, and combined this group may be interpreted to bestow auspicious wishes of abundance of good wishes and continuity of the family.如意之形化自靈芝仙草，既有長生不老之寄意，又有萬事如意之寄望；童子和魚的組合宋代以來十分流行，有多子多孫，家有餘慶之意。