Chinese Figure of an Ascetic with Bat
Product ID: A1506-003
$995.00
About this piece
A thin ascetic, a bat overhead, and all of it carved from a single stone.
Chinese jade carvers made this figure of an ascetic with a bat in jade in the 20th century. Bats are a traditional Chinese emblem of good fortune because the word for bat sounds like the word for luck. The figure is lean, with ribs showing, and stretches along a rounded oval stone beside a small companion figure below. Pale green jade, with milky patches and a few russet flecks at the edges.
About 4 inches tall. A hermit with excellent taste in minerals.
