A WHITE JADE 'LADY AND CRANE' GROUP QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

the finely worked figure of a lady depicted standing on rugged rockwork, rendered holding a lingzhi stem in her left hand and a branch in her right, the branch curling over her shoulder and extending across her back with large flowering peony blooms, the poised figure adorned in a long flowing robe and rendered with a gentle smile, below finely incised and neatly coiffed hair, the reverse further decorated with long plantain leaves, the smoothly polished stone of a translucent pale celadon-tinged white colour with a small patch of russet skin