A CHINESE PALE CELADON JADE CARVING OF LINGZHI

QING DYNASTY

Formed as two large mushrooms with smaller lingzhi growing around them, with an insect resting on the largest cap, the stone with some minor russet inclusions, 8cm.

Provenance: from an English private collection, West Yorkshire, formed in the 1970s and 1980s.

Cf. Marchant, 85th Anniversary Exhibition of Chinese Jades from Tang to Qing, p.89, no.63 for a comparable Qianlong jade carving also formed as a small insect resting upon lingzhi.