A White Jade 'Boy and Drum' Pendant Qing Dynasty, 18th Century

of flattened form, deftly carved as a smiling boy with a small tuft of hair resting playfully against a drum, dressed in loose robes with his left elbow resting atop the drum and his right hand on the beaded edge of the drum, his left hand grasping a pair of drumsticks extending to his head forming an aperture, a knotted ruyi-shaped parasol hanging behind his back, the stone of a pale celadon-white tone with a few russet inclusions