A good Chinese white jade 'lingzhi and bat' pendant, Qing Dynasty, 18th-19th century, well carved with on each side with a bat to one edge and with incised details, with very small brown inclusions, approximately 4.5cm high x 4.2cm wide x 1.7cm deep Provenance: Collection of Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Dingwall DSO (1869-1946). Thence by descent to the present owner. Born in Caterham, England, Kenneth Dingwall was a highly-decorated officer and collector of East-Asian ceramics. He was made a Lieutenant in the Gordon Highlanders in 1894 before serving in the North West Frontier from 1895 to 1898. Sent to South Africa in 1899 he was in action throughout the Boer War, for which he received the DSO in 1901. After a short retirement from the army in 1904, he re-joined in 1914 and was frequently employed as a Deputy Judge-Advocate during the Great War. An active collector of Chinese ceramics, Dingwall was one of the founding members of the Oriental Ceramic Society which formed in 1921. He belonged to the National Art Collections Fund and was the single largest donor to the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1910 and 1937, leaving a further bequest in 1948, and donating four items to the British Museum. Part of his collection was sold at Sotheby s London on 10thMarch 1933, consisting of 90 lots of mostly Tang to Ming ceramics. -1清 白玉福至心灵佩 -1拍品来源： Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Dingwall（英国东方陶瓷协会创始人之一）家族私人收藏