A rare Chinese pale celadon jade figure of a flying apsara Tang or Liao dynasty

A rare Chinese pale celadon jade figure of a flying apsara Tang or Liao dynasty, the head slightly turned, pierced and finely incised, 4.2cm. Provenance: purchased in Hong Kong in 1987. Cf. Spink & Son Ltd, Chinese Jade: an Important Chinese collection, November 1991, No.75, for a similar example. For related examples described as earrings see J. Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, p.332.