carved seated with the right hand holding a fan and the left hand raised, the back pierced with two small connected holes, the smoothly polished stone with faint russet patches

There are typical minute bruises and nicks to the fragile extremities. Small sections have possibly polished to conceal an earlier nick, including one leaf of the fan. The figure is otherwise in overall good condition.
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Rats are the first of the twelve creatures of the Chinese zodiac; related jade examples include one sold in these rooms, 8th April 2011, lot 3283; one sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27th May 2008, lot 1982; a smaller example sold in our London rooms, 15th May 2013, lot 195; and another, from the collection of Professor Cheng Te-Kun, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29th November 2005, lot 1569. Compare also a complete set of zodiac animals, from the De An Tang collection, included in the exhibition A Romance with Jade, Palace Museum, Beijing, 2004, cat. no. 76; another set, illustrated in Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 182; and a third set sold in our New York rooms, 23rd September 1995, lot 256.