18TH/19TH CENTURY

細節

A WHITE JADE FIGURE OF A RECUMBENT HORSE
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Shown with right foreleg extended and the others tucked under the body, the head turned around so that the muzzle touches the back while the ears are flicked forward, with fine hair markings detailing the long divided forelock and mane that falls on either side of the neck in alternating segments, the white stone with soft polish and russet coloring on areas of opaque white inclusions and flaw lines
5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) long, wood stand, box

來源

Avery Brundage Collection.
Moy Ying Ming Gallery, early 1970s.

拍品專文

This figure appears to be stylistically similar to a carving of two recumbent horses shown side-by-side, their heads turned to look at each other, in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 42 - Jadeware (III), Hong Kong, 1995, p. 109, no. 89. As with the present figure, the opaque white inclusions in the jade are highlighted with russet coloring. See, also, the white jade figure of a recumbent horse with head turned backwards and tail flicked to the side illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji, vol. 6, Hebei, 1991, p. 184, no. 267. Another white jade recumbent horse of larger size (8 1/3 in. long) in the Heber R. Bishop Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, is illustrated by R. Gump, Jade: Stone of Heaven, New York, 1962, p. 21.