18th centuryThe two animals carved side by side, one with its head raised resting on the other's back and holding a leafy lingzhi spray in its mouth continuing underneath their bodies, the other with its head lowered, with characteristic elongated heads set with long ears incised at the edges, the legs well-defined underneath, the stone of white tone with russet inclusions cleverly used to denote the fur, box. 5.1cm (2in) wide (2).