A PALE CELADON JADE FIGURE OF A RECUMBENT DOG SONG DYNASTY

worked as a recumbent dog with the head turned towards its left and resting on its foreleg, depicted with one paw gently placed atop the other, the slender body skilfully rendered with sharply defined ribs flanking its long spinal column, terminating in a long tail curled against its hing leg, the stone of a pale greyish-celadon colour highlighted with light brown veins

The Hei-Chi Collection.

Ip Yee, Chinese Jade Carving, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1983, cat. no. 135.
Chinese Jade Animals, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1996, cat. no. 99.

Jiang Tao and Liu Yunhui, Jades from the Hei-Chi Collection, Beijing, 2006, p. 152 bottom.

The figure is in overall good condition with just expected minute nicks to the edges and tiny natural imperfections to the stone.
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For further discussion on Song dynasty jade dogs, see the note to lot 3334.