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A PAIR OF ROCK CRYSTAL 'BOYS AND LOTUS' CARVINGS, LIAO DYNASTY
奥地利
03月12日 晚上6点 开拍
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Published: Myrna Myers (ed.) & Filippo Salviati (auth.), The Language of Adornment. Chinese Ornaments of Jade, Crystal, Amber and Glass, Paris, 2002, no. 81.China, 10th-11th century. Each of these rock crystal pendants is carved as a child dancing and holding the stem of a lotus bud. The details of the features and clothing are enhanced with fine gilding. The space between the lotus stem and the child's head allows the passage of a cord for suspension. (2)Provenance: The Collection of Sam and Myrna Myers, Paris, France. Acquired between circa 1965-2012.Condition: Very good condition with expected wear, natural inclusions, signs of burial, tiny nibbling, light scratches, and some rubbing to gilding.Weight: 61.4 g and 65 g Dimensions: 7.5 cm and 8.9 cm These pendants showing children at play convey a particular auspicious message. The child symbolizes male progeny and the wish for numerous offspring, just as the seeds of the lotus symbolize fertility. A pun on the word "lotus" reinforces this significance. The Chinese word for lotus, lian, is homophonous with lian meaning "continuous or unbroken": the image thus evokes the fulfillment of the desire for a long series of sons.In her study of Jin material culture, Ellen Johnston Laing points out that the motif of a boy holding a lotus is linked to popular lore and specifically to a famous festival: "During the Double Seventh Festival celebrating the meeting of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maid constellations, children wearing waistcoats and holding lotus leaves or plants gamboled in the streets of K'aifeng, and later, in Hangchou. They were, we are told, imitating the cult hero of the festival. For the holiday, small representations of this cult figure were made of clay, gold, or other precious material". The present example may be regarded as one of the earliest appearances of this popular motif, which is more familiar in jade carvings of later periods.Literature comparison:Compare a closely related rock crystal boy with lotus, dated to the Liao Dynasty, 9.4 cm height, in the Metropolitan Museum, object number 2008.326.

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