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A RARE PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE FIGURE OF A RECUMBENT HORSE
SONG-YUAN DYNASTY, 11TH-14TH CENTURY
The horse is fnely carved in a recumbent position with head slightly lowered, and the left
foreleg bent while the other three legs are tucked along the sides of the body. Both the
mane, which falls on the muscular cheeks of squared outline below the forward-pricked ears
and on either side of the neck, and the long tail, which is tucked over the right rear leg and
continues under the body, have fne hair markings. The softly polished stone has areas of
pale brown color.
6¡ in. (16.2 cm.) long, wood stand, cloth box with jadeite clasps
$200,000-300,000

PROVENANCE

George F. de Menasce (1891-1967) Collection.
The Collection of John T. Dorrance, Jr.; Sotheby’s New York, 20-21 October 1989, lot 247.

EXHIBITED

London, The Arts of the Sung Dynasty, Oriental Ceramic Society, 1960.

LITERATURE

Desmond Gure, “Jade of the Sung Group”, Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society,
vol. 32, 1959-60, pl. 93, no. 255, and p. 49.
S. Bernstein, “A Tale of Two Horses,” Arts of Asia, March-April 2007, pp. 161-165.

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