A black and white jade mythical beast


Yuan DynastyCarved in round as a mythical beast standing four-square, with ridged chest, its head slightly turned and crowned with a bi-furcated lingzhi shaped horn, its back detailed with knobby spine above slightly raised hindquarter, the stone of pale green with black mottled inclusions, box. 4cm (1 5/8in) high (2).
|元 青灰玉雕瑞獸Provenance:Durwin Tang Collection來源：鄧德雍收藏Compare with a closely related pale green jade carving of seated mythical beast, Yuan dynasty, excavated from Liucunbao, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, in the Xi'an Municipal Institute of Archaeology, illustrated by Gu Fang, The Pictorial Handbook of Ancient Chinese Jades, Beijing, 2007, p.330.參看陝西省西安市未央區六村堡出土一件元代玉獨角獸，現藏西安市文物保護考古所，見古方，《中國古玉器圖典》，北京，2007年，頁330，其足部及臀部雕刻工藝類似。