A CELADON JADE CARVING OF A HORSE QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

carved standing foursquare on an oval base, the head with incised mane lowered as if eating grass and the long bushy tail extending to the ground, the back drilled for attachment, the stone of pale celadon colour

There is a tiny bruise to the back of the oval base, otherwise the jade horse is in overall good condition.
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A similar horse fashioned standing with its head lowered, was included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition Chinese Jade Throughout the ages, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1975, cat. no. 364; one was included in the exhibition Chinese Jades from Han to Ch’ing, Asia House Gallery, New York City, 1980, cat. no. 68; another is illustrated in Robert P. Youngman, The Youngman Collection: Chinese Jades From Neolithic to Qing, Chicago, 2008, pl. 116; and a slightly smaller example was published in Brian Morgan, Dr Newton’s Zoo: A Study of Post-Archaic Small Jade Carvings, London, 1981, pl. 49.