Interesting Chinese Qing Dynasty soapstone figure of Li Tieguai, (17th/18th Century) with bead eyes and seated half length and an open robe, his left hand holding his iron crutch, with loses and old rubbed worn areas, similar to jade examples, 17.5cm high Together with a portrait miniature of the collector Claude Calthrop with the figure to his side, painted by Horace Taylor in Geneva in 1918, gouache on card, (2) Provenance: Claude David Usticke Calthrop (1893-1921) First Secretary General of the Rhineland High Commission, Coblenz