A WHITE JADE CARVING OF A HORSE QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY |

sensitively carved, the attenuated body standing with prominent hip, shoulder, and rib bones, the legs slightly bent and the head and neck lowered drinking from a stream indicated by the integral base incised on the underside with gently swirling water, the stone a creamy white color flecked with pale gray skillfully incorporated into the design

Bluett & Sons, Ltd., London, 15th November 1990.

Robert P. Youngman, The Youngman Collection of Chinese Jades from Neolithic to Qing, Chicago, 2008, pl. 116.

Overall in good condition with a couple very minor scattered nicks. The right side with pale grey at the neck and legs and a fine faint russet vein.
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The representation of a lean horse with its numerous ribs and joints apparent through the skin derives from the archetype of the 'noble horse' made famous in a painting by the Yuan dynasty master Gong Kai (1222 - after 1304), now in the collection of the Osaka Municipal Museum of Art.