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拍品專文
In “Tradition and Innovation: Ancient Chinese Jades in the Gerald Godfrey Collection,” Orientations, November 1986, p. 41, Wu Hung comments on the composite style of this lively animal, which has a dragon’s body, a lion’s tail and a bear-like head, with “an almost child-like expression.”
Another yellow jade mythical beast with similar knobbed spine and softly rounded features is illustrated by James Watt in Chinese Jades from Han to Ch'ing , no. 49. Watt refers to the "soft texture and warm tone of the yellow jade, together with the plastic qualities of the carving, making this piece especially attractive to the lover of jade.” Watt also notes that yellow jades were popular in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, primarily in the 14th-15th centuries, and were the preference of Ming dynasty literati. Examples of this can be found in the writings of Ming dynasty literati Gao Lian and Xie Zhaozhe.
Another yellow jade mythical beast with similar knobbed spine and softly rounded features is illustrated by James Watt in Chinese Jades from Han to Ch'ing , no. 49. Watt refers to the "soft texture and warm tone of the yellow jade, together with the plastic qualities of the carving, making this piece especially attractive to the lover of jade.” Watt also notes that yellow jades were popular in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, primarily in the 14th-15th centuries, and were the preference of Ming dynasty literati. Examples of this can be found in the writings of Ming dynasty literati Gao Lian and Xie Zhaozhe.