the elder boy depicted standing on one leg in a lively manner, turning his head to the left, a double gourd trailing at his feet, holding in his arms a younger boy grasping in his hands a spray of lotus highlighted by a patch of russet skin and a twig of lingzhi suspending a ring, the stone of an even white colour

The carving is in overall good condition. There is some typical insignificant typical nibbling along some edges.
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Compare a carving of a jade boy sold in these rooms, 5th November 1996, lot 1081; another, modelled with a kneeling boy, sold in our London rooms, 6th June 1995, lot 45; and a third, from the collection of Doris and Alexander Wallen, sold at Christie’s London, 30th March 2005, lot 119.