A Small Jade 'Boy and Goat' Group Qing Dynasty, 18th Century

finely carved of a stooping smiling boy with top knots petting a recumbent goat, with a yin-yang atop scrolling flames issuing from the animal's mouth, the pale stone with white inclusions, with dark iron-red inclusions and veins enhancing the goat's face, the boy's forehead and flaming yin-yang, wood stand (2)

Purchased from William Clayton Limited, London, 16th December 1965.

The figure is in good overall condition, with some enhancement to the russet inclusion. There is one minor nick under the boy's chin.
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Compare a similar jade group sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 20th May 1986, lot 190, and illustrated in Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, p. 173.