A GROUP OF THREE CHINESE SOAPSTONE CARVINGS

Qing dynasty, 18th and 19th century

Including: a brown stone figure of an Immortal on a mule raised on a black rocky base, a café au lait mountain carving with figures travelling up the slope among trees and boulders, and pink stone bamboo stem-shaped vase with a deer carrying a spray of lingzhi fungus in its mouth

The tallest 16.5cm (3)

Provenance: an English private collection

A similar carving of a mountain featured in Ake Setterwall, The Chinese Pavilion at Drottingham, p.186.