PROVENANCE: Important Private Collection, Taipei The pair is decorated with fruiting and flowering branches of pomegranate bearing ripening fruits and attendant flowers and buds, their skin bursting open revealing numerous seeds, the fruits in pale yellow, rose pink and white and the furled leaves in tones of green. Pomegranate in China symbolizes abundance and a wish for many sons and grandsons. An opened pomegranate with its seeds exposed evokes a Chinese saying 'shi liu kai xiao kou' which means 'the pomegranate opens and produces hundred son's.
The pair is decorated with fruiting and flowering branches of pomegranate bearing ripening fruits and attendant flowers and buds, their skin bursting open revealing numerous seeds, the fruits in pale yellow, rose pink and white and the furled leaves in tones of green. Pomegranate in China symbolizes abundance and a wish for many sons and grandsons. An opened pomegranate with its seeds exposed evokes a Chinese saying 'shi liu kai xiao kou' which means 'the pomegranate opens and produces hundred son's.
PROVENANCE: Important Private Collection, Taipei