[tibetan pendants] A Large Pale Celadon Jade - jewelry pendant

Qianlong period, Qing Dynasty
Height: 23.4cm

Exquisitely carved in high relief with SHOULAO carrying a peach in his hand, followed by two assistants balancing a jade musical stone suspended from a branch, climbing a mountain path towards a pavilion near the summit, the reverse with a deer under a pine tree on a rocky outcrop abo

Ivory carving is an old art in China dating back to prehistoric times. From the ruins of the Yin Dynasty capital of 3,700 years ago knives and rulers made of ivory have been unearthed. The Record of the Warring States, a history written 20 centuries ago, tells of Mengchang, an aristocrat of the State of Qi, who "left his homeland for a tour abroad and, when he arrived in the state of Chu, presented an ivory bed...The bed was worth a thousand pieces of gold; the

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