Two jade carvings


A group of a reclining horse turning its head back towards the monkey clambering onto its back, in pale stone with a meandering ochre inclusion, 5.1cm long; together with a carving of two mushrooms growing from a single stem with a beetle and a fly upon their crowns, in very pale green stone.5.8cm wide (2).
|The subject of a monkey and horse is a rebus for 'quick ennoblement' or rising quickly up the ladder of success in one's career.