The boulder is carved as an oblong peach with a much smaller peach on its left. A bat is flying above and a leafy branch is below. The white jade has dark grey-brown markings including a vertical flaw. The Duberlys preserved a long letter from Soame Jenyns at the British Museum on dating this boulder.

Literature: Anthony du Boulay, The Duberly Collection of Chinese Art at Winchester College (Winchester, 2019), p. 135

Provenance: Bequeathed as part of the Duberly Collection, 1978; purchased by Major Montagu and Lady Eileen Duberly from John Sparks, 10 February 1964 (£250); formerly in the collection of H.R.N. Norton, sold Sotheby’s, London, 5 November 1963, lot 120

Location: Not on display