A CHINESE PALE CELADON JADE BELT BUCKLE

18TH CENTURY

Carved as a recumbent horse, its feet tucked beneath its body and its head turned over its back, wearing a bridle, a small monkey clambering on its back and holding the reigns, together with an openwork hardwood fitted stand, 8.3cm. (2)

Provenance: a private collection, Hampshire.

Cf. For a related buckle, see Marchant, Chinese Jades from the O J R Allen Collection, p.72, no.35.