18th century One side carved with a boy riding a hobby-horse within a beaded board in low relief, the reverse carved with four characters reading jixiang ruyi in a similar beaded board, all under a stylised butterfly head, the stone of milky-white tone. 5.5cm (2 1/8in) long.Footnotes十八世紀 白玉吉祥如意牌 The theme of a boy riding a hobby horse comprises part of the popular 'boys at play' scene, which is a symbol of the eager wish for the education and advancement of many sons in Confucian China, further emphasised by the hobby horse he rides (mashang) which is a pun for 'immediately' or 'soon'. 白玉質，頭作變體蝴蝶形，牌邊起棱線，卷做簡體如意雲紋，牌心一面減地淺浮雕童子騎木馬，另一面雕篆書「吉祥如意」四字，玉質白潤均勻。