CHINA, HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)

A pair of jade pigs of this type, illustrated by S. Jenyns in Chinese Archaic Jades in the British Museum, London, 1951, pl. XXXII (top), have a block-like appearance, and exhibit the same kind of opaque alteration, and are described, p. xxxvi, as of light green and white color. Another pair of similar Han jade pigs, from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, is illustrated by M. Loehr in Ancient Chinese Jades, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1975, p. 387, no. 555.
A pair of similar pigs was sold at Christie's New York, 19-20 September 2013, lot 1672.