Two jade carvings20th century
The first a landscape boulder depicting a beauty at the half-opened doors on a moon-gate entrance to a tiled garden wall set amid large rocks and trees and a young boy waiting on the opposite side of the the doorway, the pale gray-green stone showing pale russet staining throughout; the second an oval-sectioned and deeply hollowed tree trunk vase surrounded by Shoulao at rest and his boy attendant approaching over a narrow bridge while a crane perches on a pine tree, flowers bloom on a prunus branch and bamboo sprout on the surrounding walls, the stone of medium sea-green hue; both with wood stands.
9 1/4 and 6 13/4 (23.5 and 17cm) length across carvings (4).