A LARGE WHITE JADE 'MYTHICAL BEAST' BELTHOOK QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD |

the terminal superbly worked in the form of a dragon's head, depicted with bulging eyes between dramatic curling eyebrows and a prominent snout, the beast portrayed baring its teeth at a writhing chilong portrayed in openwork grasping in its mouth a lingzhi scroll and clambering atop the broad arched shaft, the underside of the hook with a round knob, the translucent stone of an even white colour with faint grey inclusions to the underside

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 21st May 1987, lot 698.