FOUR CHINESE WHITE JADE ANIMAL CARVINGS QING DYNASTY One the Fu Lu Shou of a deer with a spray of...

FOUR CHINESE WHITE JADE ANIMAL CARVINGS QING DYNASTY One the Fu Lu Shou of a deer with a spray of peach in its mouth and a bat on its back, one of a mythical beast with a leafy stem in its mouth, another of two badgers fighting over a lingzhi, the fourth of a duck, two with wood stands, 5cm. (6) Provenance: from the collection of Surgeon Lieutenant George Giri, b.1923, purchased in Hong Kong 1962-65. Cf. M Wilson, Chinese Jades, pp.28-29, no.24 for a related carving of a duck in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.