
Asaph Hyman
Global Head of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
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Provenance: an English private collection
Compare a related jade carving of Shoulao and deer, attributed to the Ming Dynasty, from the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Jadeware (II), Hong Kong, 1995, pl.214.
The carving of the two boys is a pun on liansheng guizi 'may you continuously give birth to distinguished sons'.