DIA130mm, China
The beautiful jade pendant has the theme of a carp swimming among the lotus, this theme is popular in Chinese painting. It is true that muddy lotus pool offer an ideal habitat for the carp fish and that it makes an interesting composition, the reason for this established theme lays in another reason. Like most Chinese decoration, it is an idea of blessing; the words lotus 蓮 (lian) and carp 鯉 (li) shares the same pronouncation with the words joined 連 (lian) and branches 理 (li). 連理 refers to two individual trees having their branches joined together (inosculation), a marriage, becoming one. A blessing for the marriage, an ideal X’mas present for the wife.
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