A CHINESE WHITE JADE PLAQUE 18TH CENTURY Carved in the form of a lock

A CHINESE WHITE JADE PLAQUE 18TH CENTURY Carved in the form of a lock, decorated in shallow relief with flowers, lingzhi and bamboo, the reverse with four characters which read fu shou kang ning, 9cm. Provenance: the Dr Dean Edell Collection, illustrated in C Randall, The Brush and the Stone, The Dr Dean Edell Collection of Chinese Art, p.44, no.28.