1-234-654 - The Museum of East Asian Art/Heritage Images

Soapstone figure group, Qing dynasty, China, 1644-1911. A tall carved sculpture in black and white coloured soapstone of a bent old man with a young boy carrying a basket on his back. An ascetic with staff and big hat is beside him looking up with a fisherman with net crouching around the back. The figures are all standing on stylized waves.