Beschreibung:

AN IMPOSING PALE CELADON JADE CARVING OF A QILIN QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD carved recumbent with legs and hooves neatly tucked beneath, turning its head sharply towards its back, its dragon head detailed with bulging eyes below bushy brows, flared nostril with long curling whiskers, and a pair of stag antlers tied across by a billowing ribbon swaying gently over its wispy mane, its ribbed scaly body draped in thin swirls of vapour issuing from the chest and a finely delineated bushy tail flicked over its right haunch, its back supporting a branch of peaches bearing two large fruits, the smoothly polished stone of even pale celadon colour with a light brown streak on the chest and faint occasional snowflake inclusions, original fitted wood stand with prunus and pine cones 17 cm., 6 3/4 in.