A White Jade Recumbent Ram Qing Dynasty, 18th Century

carved in the form of a recumbent ram with his legs tucked under his body, his eyes downcast and mouth closed, his long ridged horns carved in openwork and extending along each side of the torso, his hair subtly picked out along his furled ears, curvaceous spine and pendant tail, the stone of an even white tone faintly mottled with darker inclusions, wood stand