Jade fish lotus pendant

[Jade lotus pendant]

Jade lotus pendant, Song, 6.2 cm long, 4 cm wide and 0.6 cm thick. The old collection of the Qing Palace
Jade white, with ochre yellow spots on the surface. The fish has a small head, a long body, and no scales. The fish body is curved, with its head raised, its tail up, and its fins are short and thick, with a total of 6 pieces, on which there are thin pubic lines. The fish is accompanied by a lotus leaf. The long stalk is bent and coiled into a ring, which can be used to wear lanyards
After the Western Zhou Dynasty, the number of fish and jade articles decreased sharply, and the Tang Dynasty recovered again. In the Song Dynasty, the style of wearing fish flourished again. There were many jade fish with different styles and types, or accompanied by lotus and mushroom, or only a single fish, or without scales, or decorated with horizontal water lines, or decorated with grid patterns. This trend lasted until the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. The combination of lotus and fish means more than one year in a row. It is a kind of auspicious pattern.