A WHITE AND RUSSET JADE FIGURE OF A MYTHICAL BEAST QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD |

depicted recumbent with legs neatly tucked beneath its body and the head turned over its back and grasping in its mouth a gnarled branch issuing lingzhi blooms, the horned beast portrayed with bulging eyes above a prominent snout outlined with a finely incised jowl, the muscular body of the beast further accentuated with scrolling motifs, the stone of a yellowish-celadon colour extensively accentuated with russet inclusions

Acquired in New York.

Robert P. Youngman, The Youngman Collection of Chinese Jades from Neolithic to Qing, Chicago, 2008, pl. 161.