A group of six Chinese jade carvings

The group comprises: two tapering oval plaques, one carved with lotus and the other with a horse; a rounded rectangular plaque carved with ducks and a poem, a rounded rectangular plaque carved with two scholars playing chess, the reverse carved ‘sui sui ping an’; an oval pebble carved with a lady; and a plaque carved with a ruyi sceptre to one side and a phoenix and fruit to the other, the edges carved in openwork.

The lotus plaque and the horse plaque: 7 cm. long The ‘ducks’ plaque: 6 cm. long The ‘scholars’ plaque: 5.5 cm. long The ‘lady’ pebble: 6 cm. long The openwork plaque: 5 cm. long