Lot Essay
The seal mark may be read as: "An eternal treasure"
Details
A GRAYISH-WHITE AND BROWN JADE BELTHOOK
MING/17TH CENTURY
Unusually carved as a recumbent horse with its head turned toward its back upon which a slender monkey crawls and reaches with its paw to touch the muzzle of the horse, the details of the mane and tail finely incised, with two projecting circular bosses on the reverse carved with flowerheads, the semi-opaque stone of grayish-white tone with pale brown inclusions--3¼in. (8.3cm.) long; together with a small white jade rectangular brushwasher, 18th/19th century, the shallow receptacle carved with archaistic scroll on the sides and a single fish in high relief in the interior, the base with a two-character seal mark reading, baoyong--2 1/8in. (5.4cm.) across (2)
MING/17TH CENTURY
Unusually carved as a recumbent horse with its head turned toward its back upon which a slender monkey crawls and reaches with its paw to touch the muzzle of the horse, the details of the mane and tail finely incised, with two projecting circular bosses on the reverse carved with flowerheads, the semi-opaque stone of grayish-white tone with pale brown inclusions--3¼in. (8.3cm.) long; together with a small white jade rectangular brushwasher, 18th/19th century, the shallow receptacle carved with archaistic scroll on the sides and a single fish in high relief in the interior, the base with a two-character seal mark reading, baoyong--2 1/8in. (5.4cm.) across (2)
Provenance
Warren E. Cox Collection