A pair of spinach-green jade candlesticks. Qing dynasty. Photo Sotheby's each carved in the form of a duck perched on on a turtle flanked on either side by sinuous snakes, its wings outstretched and a pricket emerging from its head, all set in a pan raised...

A superb, spinach-green jade table screen. 18th century The stone of even hue, carved in rectangular form, and at various depth, with the legendary Scholar, Envoy and Western Han Dynasty Traveller, Chang Ch'ien floating on the waves of the Yellow River...