A CELADON JADE CARVING OF A BOY PADDLING A RAFT QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

the well-carved figure of a small boy with a smiling face paddling a raft, an overflowing basket of lingzhi branches rising up and over the figure's shoulder, the stone with a small milky inclusion at the base of the raft and along one side of the basket

Rare Art, Inc. New York, 21st April 1977.

There is a chip to one of the boy's top knots and a small fissure near the figure's knee on the reverse side. There is also a small depression on one side of the boy's face near the eye that might be a polished down chip.
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