18TH CENTURY

A slightly larger amber carving (10.5 cm. high) carved on one side with monkeys and lions, where the different colors and combination of translucency and opaqueness in the amber can be seen, is illustrated by B. Till and P. Swart in Soul of the Tiger - Chinese Amber Carvings from the Reif Collection, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1999, p. 42, where it is dated 18th/19th century.