A CHINESE CELADON JADE 'DEER AND BAT' OPENWORK PENDANT

QIANLONG 1736-95

Of flattened form, carved with a recumbent ram gazing backwards at a bat in flight, the ram holding a branch of lingzhi in its mouth and with small stars incised to its body, the stone of an even tone with minor white mottling, 6.1cm.

Provenance: formerly in the collection of Dr Stefanos Bakker (1896-1959), acquired in China in the 1930s.