TWO CHINESE JADE CARVINGS OF LIU HAI AND A CARVING...

TWO CHINESE JADE CARVINGS OF LIU HAI AND A CARVING OF A BOY 18TH/19TH CENTURY The pale celadon carving of Liu Hai worked with the Immortal carrying a broom and a gourd, he stands on cash with the three-legged toad clambering at his side, together with a wood stand, the white jade carving formed as Liu Hai with a boy on his shoulders as he stands on the toad, attached to a wood stand, the third figure carved in pale celadon jade and depicting a boy holding a long branch of lingzhi, 5.4cm max. (4) Provenance: from the collection of Brigadier Gordon Richardson, DSO, OBE (1910-1998) and thence by descent. Richardson joined the 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles in India in 1931 before working as an instructor at Sandhurst between 1938 and 1940. Richardson was awarded an immediate DSO in 1944 when commanding the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Gurkha Rifles during the Italian campaign at Monte Cassino. He then received a bar to this DSO later in the same year. Afterwards, Richardson served in Greece, India, Singapore, Malaya and Hong Kong. He retired from the British Army in 1964 and then spent nine years in Nepal working for the Overseas Aid Development Corporation.