A yellow and russet jade mythical beast


Yuan/Ming DynastyStanding with its body and head slightly turned to the left, looking up, with bulging eyes and jaws slightly open, the bi-fucated tail reaching to the back of the head, the stone of soft yellow tone with one side, head and tail of russet and reddish-brown tone, box. 4.2cm (1 6/8in) high (1).
|元/明 黃玉帶皮異獸把件Provenance:Durwin Tang Collection來源：鄧德雍收藏Compare with a related white and russet jade carving of a lion, Tang dynasty, illustrated in the Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade 5 Tang, Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, Beijing, 2011, p.31, no.10. See also a related greenish and russet jade carving of a mythical beast, Tang dynasty, and another mythical beast carving in mottled pale-green jade, Ming dynasty, illustrated by J.C.Y.Watt, Chinese Jades from the Han to the Ch'ing, New York, 1980, nos.27 and 53.北京故宮藏一件唐代白玉獸可資比較，見《故宮博物院藏品大系：玉器篇》，卷五，北京，2011年，頁31，編號10；另可參考一件唐代青玉帶皮異獸及一件明代青白玉異獸，見屈志仁著，《Chinese Jades from the Han to the Ch'ing》，紐約，1980年，編號27及53。