Description
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.
