A BROWN JADE RECUMBENT 'DOG' CARVING MING DYNASTY

the stone of yellow and caramel-brown skin, deftly carved in the form of a recumbent dog with folded ears and a broad nose, its head slightly turned to the left, its muscular body well defined with wrinkled skin, with brown haunches and a bifurcated tail, fitted stand

Acquired in Hong Kong in the 1970s.