民國 岫玉雕龍魚擺件

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英文品名：A REPUBLICAN-PERIOD XIUYAN JADE CARVING OF A DRAGON-FISH 尺寸：L:20cm;H:15cm 岫玉雕。龍魚昂首翹尾，龍首魚身，通體鱗片刻畫細密，鰭牙張揚，作翻騰躍浪之勢。玉質呈淡青綠，半透明，拋光亮潤。為民國時期象生擺件，取鯤鵬化龍之寓意。龍魚即鯉魚躍龍門之典。《三秦記》載：河津一名龍門，禹鑿山開門，闊百步，黃河流下，兩岸不通車馬。魚鱉三千，上得龍門者為龍，不得者點額而還。故俗以登龍門喻士子科舉高中、身階青雲。龍首魚身、翻騰躍浪，正取此蛻變之意。岫玉產遼寧岫巖，開採甚早，近代因產量大、色溫潤，廣作擺件。此件置書齋，既可祝功名，亦寓逆流而上之志。 A Xiuyan jade carving of a dragon-fish, head raised and tail curled, with a dragon's head and a fish body, scales finely defined, fins and teeth bared as if leaping through waves. The stone is of a pale green, translucent and brightly polished. A Republican-period ornament evoking the carp-transforming-into-dragon motif. The dragon-fish renders the carp-leaping-over-Dragon-Gate legend. According to the Sanqin Ji, at Hejin, also called Dragon Gate, Yu the Great cut through the mountain to let the Yellow River pass. Three thousand carps gathered; those that leaped through became dragons, those that failed returned with a bruised forehead. Hence entering the dragon gate came to mean passing the imperial examinations and rising in office. A dragon-headed, fish-bodied beast tossing through waves captures this transformation. Xiuyan jade, from Xiuyan in Liaoning, has been worked since early times and in modern times became widely used for ornaments on account of its warm tone. A carving like this in a studio wishes academic success and symbolises rising against the current.

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