The present lot belongs to a group of large naturalistically carved late Ming dynasty recumbent horses with raised heads turned backwards. Rawson discusses a stylistically similar recumbent horse with head turned back, also with incised mane and tail, and with similar eyes, jaw, limbs, and musculature which she identifies as either late Ming or early Qing dynasty in her volume Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, fig. 26:20; another comparable jade horse was illustrated in Handbook of the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, p. 57, top left