Bixie resting on four feet with open mouth - Green semi-opaque jade with slight pickling of surface skin.
- Has a triparte lion's tail and a fanciful mane or crest comming off the top of the head.
- These mythological creatures were thought to ward off evil; surely this jovial one seems like a friendly guardian.
- James Watt, Chinese Jades from Han to Ch'ing, 1980, fig # 49, describes a similar "crouching feline cub...[with] nobbed spine, heavy scrolled eyebrows and whiskers, round ears and snout, and protruding eyes. The front paws are round balls, but with well-detailed claws."
- 8.78 x 6.20 x 3.42 cm.Â
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