Groupe en jade blanc et rouille sculpté Chine, dynastie Qing, époque Qianlong (1736-1795)

la pierre d'une belle teinte blanc et rouille représentant deux cailles côte à côte, un épi de millet dans le bec de l'une, la base sculptée des pattes de l'autre et d'une feuille de figuier, socle en bois sculpté ; petit choc à un bec et petit manque à la pointe d'une feuille

Collection de Monsieur Marie-Jules-Alfred Le Testu (1856-1914), secrétaire d'ambassade nommé à Pékin le 8 janvier 1892, commandeur de l'Ordre du Dragon de l'Annam.

One chip to the beak and a chip to one leave underneath a small area originally slightly ground down and a tiny chip to one leave on the side ; the actual color is slightly more celadon than the catalogue illustration would suggest as expected on a white jade.
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See a close carved white jade group of two quails with a millet stalk illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Jadeware, Hong Kong, 1995, vol III, ill. 81, p. 101