TWO PALE CELADON JADE CARVINGS QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

the first, a vertically oriented Buddha's hand citron, the long curling 'fingers' emerging from a twisted openwork stem; the second, a recumbent cat, its head turned backwards gazing at a large butterfly in high relief to one side, forming the rebus maodie ('may you live into your seventies and eighties'), wood stand (3)