FOUR SMALL CHINESE WHITE JADE ANIMAL CARVINGS QING DYNASTY One carved as two catfish entangled in...

FOUR SMALL CHINESE WHITE JADE ANIMAL CARVINGS QING DYNASTY One carved as two catfish entangled in a spray of lingzhi, another a small monkey with a peach, a third of a mythical beast with a lingzhi in its mouth and the fourth as a bird perched on a fruiting branch, 6cm. (4) Provenance: from the collection of Surgeon Lieutenant George Giri, b.1923, purchased in Hong Kong 1962-65. Cf. M Knight, H Li, T T Bartholomew, Later Chinese Jades, p.272, no.296 for a similar carving of two catfish in the collection of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Also see A Forsyth and B McElney, Jades from China, p.395, no.324 for a carving of a bird with peach spray from the Museum of East Asian Art in Bath, England.