insect cannot be used as a fertility symbol. History The sculptor of the Jadeite Cabbage is unknown. It was first displayed in the Forbidden City's Yonghe Palace, the residence of the Qing Empire's Guangxu Emperor's Consort Jin, who probably received it as part of her dowry for her wedding to Guangxu in 1889. Following the fall of the Qing Empire in the Chinese Revolution of 1911, the sculpture became part of the collection of the Palace Museum in the Forbidden City. Along with a core of that collection, the piece survived the Second Sino-Japanese War (World War II) and the Chinese Civil War and was eventually relocated to Taiwan's National Palace Museum. References External links Jadeite Cabbage with Insects at the National Palace Museum website Leslie Hook. "The Jade Cabbage" Wall Street Journal. 27 July 2007. Chinese sculpture National Palace Museum Qing dynasty art 19th-century sculptures Jade Individual hardstone carvings