A mottled green jade carving of a horse


Ming DynastyDeftly carved as a horse lying on its side, looking back towards its hind legs turned and raised, the front legs tucked under the body, revealing the bottom of its hooves and its bushy tail in between, the hair of the mane and tail finely rendered with incisions, the greyish pale green stone with flecked russet inclusions, box. 7cm (2 3/4in) long (2).
|明 青玉雕滾地馬鎮紙Provenance:Durwin Tang Collection來源：鄧德雍收藏Compare with a closely related jade horse, probably Yuan or early Ming dynasty, illustrated by G.Tsang and H.Moss, Arts from the Scholar's Studio, Hong Kong, 1986, no.155. See also a similarly carved jade horse, Ming dynasty, from the Mary and George Bloch Collection, which was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 23 October 2005, lot 45. See another related example, which was was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 November 2017, lot 3053.參考一件元或明初之玉雕馬，見曾柱昭及H.Moss編，《文玩萃珍》，香港，1986年，編號155。另有一件明代玉馬可作比較，2005年10月23日售於香港蘇富比，拍品編號45；佳士得香港售出一件褐玉臥馬亦資參考，2017年11月29日，拍品編號3053。