FOUR JADE CARVINGS OF MONKEYS 17th/18th century (5)FOUR JADE CARVINGS OF MONKEYS17th/18th centuryThe largest monkey carved seated using a branch issuing a ripe peach to scratch its back, with wood stand, 5.3cm (2 1/8in) high; the next largest seated against rockwork and holding a peach in both hands, 4.8cm (1 7/8in) high; the third carving of two monkeys seated beside each other, one with its arm around the other while holding a peach, 3.1cm (1 1/4in) high; the fourth carving of two monkeys, one resting its head atop the other, 3.1cm (1 1/4in) long. (5).十七/十八世紀 玉猴 一組四件Provenance: Colonel M.M. Munro, Scotland (the largest monkey holding peach branch)S. Marchant & Son, London, 10 November 2000 (the largest monkey holding peach branch)Roger Keverne Ltd., London, 12 June 2003 (the monkey holding a peach above his knees)Roger Keverne Ltd., London, 6 November 2004 (small monkey group holding peach)Roger Keverne Ltd., London, 24 May 2004 (two monkeys)A distinguished English private collectionPublished, Illustrated and Exhibited: S. Marchant & Son, 75th Anniversary Exhibition of Post-Archaic Chinese Jades from Private Collections, London, 2000, no.81來源：蘇格蘭上校M.M.Munro舊藏（最大者）倫敦古董商S.Marchant & Son，2000年11月10日（最大者）倫敦古董商Roger Keverne Ltd.，2003年6月12日（膝上捧桃者）倫敦古董商Roger Keverne Ltd.，2004年11月6日（二猴抱桃者）倫敦古董商Roger Keverne Ltd.，2004年5月24日（二猴相對而坐者）英國顯赫私人收藏展覽著錄：S. Marchant & Son，《75th Anniversary Exhibition of Post-Archaic Chinese Jades from Private Collections》，倫敦，2000年，編號81Compare with a related jade carving of a monkey and young, Qianlong, illustrated by S.Howard Hansford, Jade: Essence of hills and streams, The Von Oertzen Collection of Chinese and Indian Jades, London, 1969, fig.D80; see also the monkey, 18th century, illustrated in The Woolf Collection of Chinese Jade, London, 2013, no.108.See also one white jade carving of a monkey, 18th century, which was sold at Bonhams London, 7 June 2021, lot 730.