FINE JEWELS
拍品 089:
Designed as a disc with a dragon encircling a flaming pearl, being symbolic of strength and prosperity, of good carving and thickness, the material is icy colorless jadeite suffused with a soft pink lavender hue, of high, glassy translucency, surmounted with a diamond set mounting and chain, mounted in 18k white gold, carving measuring 55.25 X 55.78 X 12.28 mm, chain length 60.00 cm
Accompanied by a report from the Hong Kong Jade & Stone Laboratory stating the jadeite is natural and without any resin, report no. KJ76173 dated 17th September 2012
Eastern Dragons are associated with virtues as well as power and as benevolent creatures. The Eastern Dragon does not have the same associations that go with Western Dragons. There are many interpretations of the dragon myths, Dragons that live under the sea, as the son of heaven, the Kings among people, good and wise… The five-clawed Chinese dragon is the keeper of the flaming pearl. In tradition, the pearl denoted the greatest wealth a person could obtain, the ‘pearl of wisdom’. The Dragon chasing the pearl can represent a dynamic search for wisdom.
