Description
A good Chinese jade carving of a recumbent horse, stretching its head around to gnaw at its rear hoof and with its tail curled beneath it, the greyish celadon stone flecked with darker striations, 17th/18th century, together with a later wood stand, 6cm long and 3.8cm high. (2)
Provenance: purchased in Hong Kong in 1973.
Cf. Watt, Chinese Jades from Han to Ch'ing, no.64, p.8, where he illustrates a Tang dynasty jade depicting the same theme and notes that the coiled position "is similar to stone or pottery lions of the Tang period with one of the hind paws at the mouth or scratching one ear".
