Two jade animals


Probably Song DynastyComprising a yellow jade lion crouching on a rectangular platform, its head facing forward with a protruding nose and almond-shaped eyes, detailed with incised floppy ears, a hole pierced vertically, the attractive stone of a yellow hue with brown inclusions, 3.4cm (1 1/2in) wide; and a white jade recumbent mythical beast with its head resting on the front legs, a long striated tail behind its back, the white stone with mottled russet tones, 4.4cm (1 3/4in) wide. (2).
|或宋代 黃玉瑞獸及白玉瑞獸Provenance:Durwin Tang Collection來源：鄧德雍收藏Compare with a closely related jade horse, Tang or Liao dynasty, also seated on a flat platform, illustrated by J.Rawson, Chinese Jades from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 364, no.26:8. See also a similar example of the mythical beast, Tang - Song dynasty, illustrated by G.Tsang, Chinese Jade Animals, Hong Kong, 1996, no.74.參考一件唐或遼代之玉馬，底部亦平，見J.Rawson著《Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing》，倫敦，1995年，頁364，編號26:8。香港藝術館展出一件唐至宋之近例可作參考，見《中國肖生玉雕》，香港，1996年，編號74。