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, Jan 02 2011 11:08 AM
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Posted 02 January 2011 - 11:08 AM
Hi i have few sculpture from china would be nice to know were it come from i think the ceramic figure with the girl and fish must be an clay figure the others i donnt know maby there some help here thanks in advance nice greetings Tony
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Posted 31 August 2012 - 09:45 PM
so lovely picture and good to have
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Posted 14 September 2012 - 04:27 AM
I don't think the lion is Chinese in the sense of being made in a typical Chinese style, though of course it might have been produced in China. It looks very European to me.
The material is hard to tell from a picture alone. The child on the carp might be plaster or clay, the lion might be porcelain. But as I said, it's hard to tell from a picture. Both seem to be new.
A child with a carp is a common motive in Chinese folk art. Carps might look similiar to goldfish, but can be recognized by their barbels.
The name for "carp" is "li" (鲤), which is homophone to "profit" (利). In the same vein, "fish" is "yu" (鱼) in Chinese, which is pronounced like to word for "surplus" (余). A popular Chinese New Year's saying is "every year there is fish" (年年有鱼), which means "every year you a have some surplus".
A child with a fish or a carp can be such a new years wish for abundance and wealth, or a wish for an abundance of descendants. The child seems to be holding wheat or something. Not sure about the symbolism in that.
The material is hard to tell from a picture alone. The child on the carp might be plaster or clay, the lion might be porcelain. But as I said, it's hard to tell from a picture. Both seem to be new.
A child with a carp is a common motive in Chinese folk art. Carps might look similiar to goldfish, but can be recognized by their barbels.
The name for "carp" is "li" (鲤), which is homophone to "profit" (利). In the same vein, "fish" is "yu" (鱼) in Chinese, which is pronounced like to word for "surplus" (余). A popular Chinese New Year's saying is "every year there is fish" (年年有鱼), which means "every year you a have some surplus".
A child with a fish or a carp can be such a new years wish for abundance and wealth, or a wish for an abundance of descendants. The child seems to be holding wheat or something. Not sure about the symbolism in that.
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