A FINELY CARVED SMALL WHITE JADE BOAT QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD

intricately carved in openwork in the form of a long fishing boat, surmounted by a rectangular cabin, with the helmsman steering the tiller clothed in loose, flowing robes and wearing a mandarin hat, with a pair of deer at the bow grasping a sprig of lingzhi fungus in their mouths, and a vase filled with a bouquet of lingzhi, the stone of an even, translucent white tone throughout

Compare a larger white jade boat of the same period, sold in these rooms, 10th April 2006, lot 1766; and a small jadeite boat sold in these rooms, 30th October 2000, lot 359.  See also another white jade boat illustrated in A Romance with Jade, From the De An Tang Collection, cat.no. 59.