CHINESE STATUETTE

Chinese stone statue depicting a bird with a peach branch in the beak; Chinese manufactory; Qing dynasty (1644-1911) - XVIII century. A statue made of stone in the jade variants (yu), depicting a bird holding a branch with fruit in the beak; this is a long tradition of representation in China, where birds like herons, cranes, Phoenicians, etc. shake a twig in its beak, flower or fruit, coral, fungus dellâ € ™ immortality etc. This kind of depiction, with goodwill, is commonly called ce niao and means to mean in general the bird that bites or holds something in the beak, cm 9x11x4