A LARGE INSCRIBED WHITE JADE 'BOY AND EGRET' PLAQUE QING DYNASTY |

of rectangular form, one face worked in shallow relief with a boy carrying a vase of flowering peony beside an egret and a bat in flight, the reverse with a square cartouche enclosing four seal characters reading yilu pingan ('Wishing you a safe journey'), all surmounted by a pair of flying bats flanking a central ruyi head, the stone of an even white tone