A WHITE AND BROWN JADE CARVING OF LIU HAI LATE MING DYNASTY |

crouching with a large three-legged toad pinned under the chest and right arm, the toad's head emerging by the boy's gleeful face, a string of coins clutched in the left hand, the body covered in a robe falling in thick folds over the bent arms and legs, the stone an even milky white with small brown inclusions at the face and legs

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 25th April 1980.
Collection of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016) Irving, no. 307.

The carving is in mostly good condition, however, there is a small loss to one of the boy's fingers and small chips to the frog's feet.
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