A CHALCEDONY PEANUTS AND JUJUBE CARVING, QING
China, Qing Dynasty, 18th - 19th Century. Naturalistically carved in the form of three conjoined fruit, well-figured with thin ridges, with four peanuts at the edges and a minuscule yet brilliantly carved squirrel sitting atop.

Provenance: From a private collection in Glasgow, Scotland. Collected in the 1960s and 1970s.
Condition: Excellent condition with beautiful patina.

Weight: 25.8 grams
Dimensions: Width 4.4 cm

This carving serves both as a brush rest and a pendant. The translucent stone is of a fine burnt-caramel tone with paler golden shades, the opaque veins skillfully worked as cream-colored peanuts, together with the squirrel forming a support for a brush on top and the three feet on the underside. Pierced at the center and the tail of the squirrel to alternatively serve as pendant.

Auction result comparison: Compare with a closely related object of similar size, described as a brush rest only, at Sotheby’s Hong Kong on May 27th 2014, in Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, lot 22.

清代玉髓巧雕早生貴子把件
中國，清代，十八至十九世紀。巧雕三顆棗兒挨在一起，四周四粒花生，棗子上有隻小松鼠。

來源：蘇格蘭戈拉斯洛私人收藏，購於1960年至1970年間。
品相：品相極好，包漿美麗。

重量：25.8 克
尺寸：寬 4.4 厘米