A GREY AND BROWN JADE HORSE

细节

A GREY AND BROWN JADE HORSE
MING DYNASTY

The recumbent horse carved in the round, its head turned to the right and looking to the rear, the mane and tail lightly incised with naturalistic markings, the underside strongly carved to show the legs tucked under the body, the stone of greyish tone with brown streaks and inclusions with an even polish
4 7/8in. (12.5cm.) long, box

展览

Pacific Asia Museum, 1986, Catalogue, no. 143
San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986
The Dayton Art Institute, 1989, no. 212
Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1990, Catalogue, no. 45

拍品专文

The present lot belongs to a group of large naturalistically carved late Ming dynasty recumbent horses with raised heads turned backwards. Rawson discusses a stylistically similar recumbent horse with head turned back, also with incised mane and tail, and with similar eyes, jaw, limbs, and musculature which she identifies as either late Ming or early Qing dynasty in her volume Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, fig. 26:20; another comparable jade horse was illustrated in Handbook of the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, p. 57, top left