A white and brown jade chimera, Song-Ming dynasty | 宋至明 白玉辟邪
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A white and brown jade chimera, Song-Ming dynasty
宋至明 白玉辟邪
finely carved from a white and brown jade pebble in the form of a mythical beast, the crouching animal with a leonine head, horns and muscular feline body, a central vertical perforation for attachment to a cord
Length 3.6 cm, 1⅜in.
Eastern Pacific Co. (Hei Hung-Lu), Hong Kong, 1st November 1983.
東泰商行（黑洪祿），香港，1983年11月1日
Chinese Jade Animals, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1996, cat. no. 123.
《中國肖生玉雕》，香港藝術館，香港，1996年，編號123