QING DYNASTY, 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Among the jade figural carvings of the mid-Qing period, as well as Buddhist and Daoist figural representations, secular figures were also produced such as elderly men, female figures and scholars as seen in the present lot. A carving of two sages in the Qing Court Collection is illustrated in Jadeware (III), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1995, no. 106; alongside a female figure, no. 102.