A Small Bamboo 'Liu Hai and Gold Toad' Group Carving Ming Dynasty, 17th Century

carved in the round as Liu Hai smiling and sitting atop a grinning three-legged toad, the plump immortal dressed in loose robes with his right hand resting on his right knee and his left hand covering his left ear holding a coin, the smoothly patinated bamboo of a warm caramel-brown tone