Two jade carvings


The first a white jade carving depicting a boy playfully clinging over a bearded man's shoulder and head, the details rendered with carefully incised lines (natural fissures); the second carved as a recumbent duck on a large lotus leaf and holding a lingzhi head in its beak, the pale celadon-tinged stone cast with white specks and patches, with russet-stained fissures (small chips).2 3/4in (7cm) height of figural group
|ProvenanceCollection of Brooks & Dorothy CofieldJade figure:Estate of Edith Pate, Portland, Oregon, acquired 2012Jade duck:a Portland Estate