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(another view)

The present jade horse was included in the Oriental Ceramic A similar jade fgure of a recumbent horse with legs tucked
Society exhibition, The Arts of the Sung Dynasty, 1960, no. 255, alongside and under the body, and with similarly rendered head
pl. 93, where a similar but smaller horse (2.7 in. long), from the and detailed mane, from a Jin-period (13th-14th century) site in
collection of Captain Dugald Malcolm, is also illustrated, no. Heilongjiang province, is illustrated Wenwu, 1977:4, pl. 7:2. Jessica
261. Desmond Gure in “Jade of the Sung Group”, T.O.C.S., vol. Rawson, in Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, British
32, 1959-60, p. 49, described the current fgure as “particularly Museum, 1995, p. 372, fg. 1, illustrates a drawing of this Jin horse
fne” and continued: “The modelling is strong and decisive, and notes, “it is thoroughly naturalistic in its pose.” Another
the formation of the head with its marked convexity of outline comparable, but smaller (8 cm. long) ) jade fgure of a horse, the
resembling that on a horse depicted on a mural painting in a color of the stone similar to that of the present horse, carved with
Northern Sung tomb discovered at Pai-sha, in Honan in 1951.” head turned backwards, is illustrated in Arts from the Scholar’s
The mural is illustrated by Su Pai (ed.) in A Report on Three Sung Studio, Oriental Ceramic Society, Hong Kong, 1986, pp. 176-77, no.
Dynasty Tombs excavated at Pai-sha, Peking, 1957. In these Song 155, where the authors G. Tsang and H. Moss state that, “recent
dynasty murals one can see the same strong outline of the head, opinion on the dating of post-archaic jades would probably tend to
the broad forehead, prominent eyes and long mane that are found date this example as Song or Yuan.”
on the present horse.
宋/元 青白玉雕臥馬擺件

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