The palaces and private appartments at the Qing court were decorated with fanciful hardstone planters and models; this graceful model of an Immortal drifting down river in search of flowers, peaches and lingzhi fungus of immortality would undoubtedly once have been placed in such an environment. Compare with two similar models of rafts carved of sandalwood in the Palace Museum, the first decorated with white jade European figures and the other with an immortal, illustrated in Qinggong Yanyue Cangzhen, Beijing chubanshe, 2002, no. 36 (fig. 1).