A ROCK-CRYSTAL FIGURE OF A RECUMBENT BOAR EASTERN HAN DYNASTY | 東漢 水晶臥豬

Jiang Tao and Liu Yunhui, Jades from the Hei-Chi Collection, Beijing, 2006, p. 130.

姜濤及劉雲輝，《熙墀藏玉》，北京，2006年，頁130

Carved in the round from rock-crystal, the recumbent boar is well articulated with triangular eyes, a long snout and a coat of short fur picked out with finely incised striations. Compare two pairs of rock-crystal pigs, carved in a slightly less refined style, included in the exhibition Sparkling Splendours. The Art of Ancient Chinese Carvings on Rock Crystal and Agate. The Taoshi Zhai Collection, Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2000, cat. nos 215-216. Similar animal figures were also made in other materials during the Han dynasty. For example, see a slightly larger stone recumbent pig with a long snout in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, no. 1994.605.113. A small Eastern Han recumbent beast with triangular eyes and a big rounded nose, together with a closely related stone animal figure decorated with striations similar to those on the present lot, was excavated from Wubaizhuang, Linyi, Shandong, and preserved in the collection of Linyi Museum (Regional Culture in China: Qilu Culture, Shanghai, 1998, pl. 260).

漢代水晶動物並不多見，此圓雕野豬，線條簡練，目呈三角，長吻略皺，身披短毛，剔透可人，他例無尋，然可比較造型較簡約或材質相異者，如淘石齋藏水晶豬握兩對，雕刻明快，卻稍形簡略，細節欠奉，收錄在《絢麗晶瑩：淘石齋所藏中國古代水晶瑪瑙器》，香港中文大學文物館，香港，2000年，編號215-216。另可參考紐約大都會藝術博物館藏漢代石雕臥豬，尺寸稍大，同飾長吻，編號1994.605.113 [https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/44412]。山東臨沂市吳白莊東漢墓發掘得一件精緻的水晶臥獸，三角形眼、橢圓大鼻，該墓另出土一相類石獸，同以平行短線刻劃毛髮，兩者均為臨沂市博物館所藏，見《中國地域文化大系．齊魯文化》，上海，1998年，圖版260。