A GOOD CHINESE PALE CELADON JADE MARRIAGE DISH

QIANLONG 1736-95

The shallow flared body carved in relief to the exterior with lotus flowers and leaves emerging from water, the interior with two fish, all raised on four short ruyi feet, a paper label for Bluett & Sons, 16.5cm.

Provenance: formerly in an English private collection.

Cf. Marchant, 85th Anniversary Exhibition of Jades from Tang to Qing, pp.180-81, no.128, where a related dish also carved with twin fish is illustrated. See also Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages, The Oriental Ceramic Society, no.420 for another example exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum, 1975.