A GREY JADE FIGURE OF A BIRD SONG－MING DYNASTY |

well worked with a swelling breast and a rounded body depicted in low relief on the underside with a pair of legs and feet, the back terminating in a protruding elongated thick tail incised with parallel lines, flanked on the sides by a pair of wings accentuated with linear and cross-hatched incisions, the round head of the bird with a short beak and depicted with a long slender crest extending backwards to the rounded back, the stone of a variegated dark bluish-grey colour mottled with light and brown inclusions

Collection of Jon Edwards.

Robert P. Youngman, The Youngman Collection of Chinese Jades from Neolithic to Qing, Chicago, 2008, pl. 83.