Lot 3657. A white jade crane group, Qing dynasty, 18th century; 6.5 cm., 2 1/2  in. Estimate 80,000 — 120,000 HKD. Lot sold 137,500 HKD. © Sotheby's

finely carved in the form of a crane with its head turned towards its back, rendered conjoined with a smaller crane by its side, the larger crane depicted with a gnarled sprig of fruiting peaches in its beak, the smaller one with a long lingzhi stem, both birds with their legs tucked neatly beneath their bodies, their plumage exquisitely picked out, the stone of pale greenish-white colour with russet inclusions to one sides, wood stand.

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 28th April 1993, lot 641.