A yellow and russet jade recumbent dog


Song/Ming DynastyDeftly carved with its head turned backwards, with a naturalistically rendered nose, beady eyes and floppy ears, the well-defined muscles accentuated with the knobbly spine terminating with a finely incised curled tail, the stone of a greenish-yellow tone with russet and brown-black inclusions, box. 7.5cm (3in) long (2).
|宋/明 黃玉褐沁臥犬Provenance:Durwin Tang Collection來源：鄧德雍收藏Jade carvings of hound-like dogs such as the present lot can be found as early as the late Tang dynasty, see a jade carving of a dog, Tang dynasty, illustrated by G.Tsang, Chinese Jade Animals, Hong Kong, 1996, no.68. Compare also with a similar jade recumbent dog, Song dynasty, illustrated by J.Rawson, Chinese Jades from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, pl.26:10. See also a carving of a jade recumbent dog, Song dynasty, from the Songzhutang Collection, which was sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 30 May 2017, lot 57, and compare with a yellow and russet jade dog, Ming dynasty, which was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 6 April 2016, lot 3001.犬形玉雕的題材最遲可以追溯到唐末，如香港藝術館曾展出一件唐代玉犬，見《中國肖生玉雕》，香港，1996年，編號68。另可比較一件宋代玉臥犬，見J. Rawson著《Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing》，倫敦，1995年，圖版26:10。松竹堂舊藏一件宋代臥犬亦堪比較，2017年5月30日售於倫敦邦瀚斯，拍品編號57；香港蘇富比售出一件明代黃玉帶皮犬把件也可作比，2016年4月6日，拍品編號3001。