A CELADON AND RUSSET JADE CARVING AND A WHITE GLASS CUP QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

the carving worked as a recumbent dog with its head turned backward, its mouth grasping a leafy sprig of lingzhi, beside a deer clasping a chrysanthemum spray in its mouth, the stone of a pale celadon tone suffused with russet inclusions; the glass cup of bell shape, rising from a slightly tapered foot to a flared rim, engraved to one side with a poetic inscription, the base with an apocryphal four-character Qianlong seal mark

The jade carving:
Dunt King, Hong Kong, 1962.
Bluett & Sons Ltd, London, 1962 (£5).
Collection of Roger Pilkington (1928-69), from 1963 (£9).

The glass cup:
Collection of Mrs. Louis Oppenheimer, until 1965.
Bluett & Sons Ltd, London, 1965.
Collection of Roger Pilkington (1928-69), from 1965 (£45).