A CELADON JADE MYTHICAL BEAST, LONGMA

細節

A CELADON JADE MYTHICAL BEAST, LONGMA
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

The mythical beast depicted as a horse with the scaly skin of a dragon, exhaling a stream of clouds and carrying a bundle of scrolls on its back, galloping above a sea of turbulent waves, the semi-translucent stone with russet patches
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) long, stand

來源

John Sparks Ltd., London

出版

Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 193

展覽

Christie's New York, 13-26 March 2001
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, August 2003 - December 2004

拍品專文

The longma is an auspicious creature that, according to legend, is said to represent gratitude.

The present beast is modelled to appear like a horse, and is very similar in style to the mythical creature found on a well-known group of Yongzheng-marked doucai porcelain dishes, such as the one in the Palace Museum collection, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 206, no. 35. For a jade example of a horse carrying books, see Jadeware (III), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 90; and an example sold in these Rooms, 28 November 2005, lot 1337 (fig. 1).