Group of five Chinese jade fruit carvings including: One opaque, delicately carved grey peach with skillfully incised details on the fruit and leaves. One jade carved into a pair of winter melons, with inclusions expertly coloring one of the melons. One carving of a pair of tear drop shaped fruits similar to long eggplants, carved of extremely light green jade. One opaque and creamy, oblong carving resembling a partial Buddha's hand with russet inclusions throughout, particularly in the intricacies of the leaves and along one side of the fruit. One deeply brown jade with the veins of a leaf incised along the underside and upper portion of the front of the pendant, possibly two more eggplants. Height ranges from 1/4 to 1 3/4 in; width ranges from 2 in to 2 1/2 in; depth ranges from 1/2 in to 1 in. Gross weight: 113.8 g.

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