a group of Six jade carvings


Qing dynasty and laterIncluding four figures of little boys, three holding lotus stalks, the fourth holding a ribbon attached to a brocade-covered ball; a thinly sectioned quatrelobed plaque incised with two characters reading jiqing (auspicious happiness) and reversed by a bat hovering over a young boy holding a halberd; and a circular reticulated plaque carved as a hanging basket filled with peonies (some with chips).2 5/8in (6.8cm) height of the quatrelobed plaque
|The halberd ji held by the boy on the quatrelobed plaque forms a visual rebus for the inscription on the reverse jiqing: see Terese Tse Bartholomew, Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art (Hong Kong,2006), p. 63, 3.4.1.