A FINE AND RARE WHITE JADE MYTHICAL HORSE

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A FINE AND RARE WHITE JADE MYTHICAL HORSE
MING DYNASTY

Softly modelled with stout, rounded proportions, supporting two beribboned scrolls, looking downward towards a flaming pearl atop dramatically rolling waves continuing to the underside, meticulously detailed with neatly parted, incised locks of mane and tail, with scales and flames about the well defined, muscular haunches, the semi-opaque stone with a pale celadon tint and russet inclusions (tiny nicks to extremities of carving)
6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm.) long, wood stand

Lot Essay

Compare a green jade horse and groom group where the base consists of rockwork included in Gems of Chinese Art from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, The Avery Brundage Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1983, Catalogue, p. 132, no. 52. The author explains that naturalistic bases in jade carving, such as waves or rocks, was a Ming innovation; a significant development from simplistic earlier bases and paves the way for the famous jade mountains of the Qing dynasty.

(US$100,000-130,000)

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