A CARVED WHITE AND BLACK JADE LOG RAFT QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD

in the form of a peach tree log raft, the stern cleverly carved using the layering of colour in the stone with white jade leafy branches bearing lush fruit, the greyish-black raft carrying an immortal seated with a double-gourd flask issuing wisps of smoke on which rests a bird and a bat, a seated sage and a deer further up the raft, wood stand