LATE SHANG-EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC

This boldly carved jade rabbit is notable for its thickness which allows it to function as a free-standing sculpture. Compare the late Shang jade figure of a rabbit, of smaller size (3.2 cm.) and with more rudimentary carving, but with similar angular ears with thin grooved lines corresponding to the shape, from Qianzhangda, Tengzhou, Shandong province, illustrated by Gu Fang in The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China, vol. 8, Beijing, 2005, vol. 4, p. 147.