TWO AMBER CARVINGS QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

each finely carved in the round, the smaller carved as a cluster of peaches growing from leafy stems bearing small peach blooms, with a bat perched atop, the larger carved as a dragon emerging from swirling clouds with a lion crouching down below on a rocky outcrop by crashing waves, the reverse with monkeys and squirrels scampering through pine trees and lingzhi fungus, the amber of a translucent golden brown in tone