A gray and brown jade mythical beast, Song - Ming dynasty

Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).

Compare a related jade mythical beast with shorter neck illustrated in Roger Keverne ed., Jade, London, 1995, fig. 29. A figure of a dog with a similarly modeled body, attributed to the Ming dynasty, is in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, and illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Jadeware II, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 209. Another related figure of a dog with its head turned to the right sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 20th March 1990, lot 883. See also a mythical beast with the head turned back sold at Christie's New York, 2nd June 1989, lot 282; and one from the Junkunc Collection that sold in these rooms, 22nd September 2020, lot 241.