A CELADON AND RUSSET JADE HOUND
Song Dynasty or Earlier
The seated, long-eared hound slightly coiled and looking to its right, the spine neatly delineated above the ribbed body, areas of russet from the original pebble skin
2.13/16in. (7.2cm.) long
Lot Essay
For a very similar recumbent jade hound dated to the Song dynasty, see the Catalogue to the exhibition, Chinese Jade Animals, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 19 April - 14 July 1996, p. 122, no. 99.