The quail, 鵪鶉 anchun, provides the homophone for 'peace', 平安 pingan. Two quails suggest twice the amount of peace and forms the pun 'double peace', 雙安 shuangan. The current lot depicts two quails fighting over a grain, 穗 sui, which is a pun for 'year', 歲 sui, resulting in a further pun of 'may there be peace year after year', 歲歲平安 suisui pingan; or 'may there be peace and a good harvest', 雙安嘉禾 shuangan jiahe.|玉質黃色，局部有褐斑，圓雕成一對鵪鶉並臥，圓眼，勾鼻喙，口銜麥穗，雙翅收於背部兩側，雙爪淺浮雕收於腹下，長尾，兩鳥尾部交疊，翅膀和尾部的羽毛雕刻細緻，整體造型玲瓏精巧，玉質溫潤，手感細膩，是不可多得的佳作。|鵪鶉在中國有著吉祥寓意。取「鵪」與「安」之同音，寓意平安。兩隻鵪鶉口中所銜的「稻穗」又與「歲」同音，且鵪鶉成雙，故本拍品有「歲歲平安」之意。