KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A FINELY CARVED WHITE AND RUSSET JADE SCROLL WEIGHT
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The circular pebble well-carved as a boy crouching holding a large lingzhi stem over his right shoulder, the folds of his robes and tufts of hair tied into well-defined buns, confronting a recumbent cat gasping a buttlefly in its mouth, both seated on a large lotus leaf beside a blossom emerging near the cat's head, the well-polished stone of an even white tone utilising the russet skin to highlight the lotus leaf
2 1/4 in. (5.4 cm.) wide, box

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The combination of a cat and butterfly signifies the wish for someone to live into their 70s or 80s (the cat being a pun for eighty to ninety, mao and the butterfly being a pun for 70 to 80, die) and together with the boy holding the lingzhi branch, a symbol of immortality, signifies that this carving would almost certainly have been intended as a birthday gift.