A white jade mythical beast, tianlu
Ming DynastyExquisitely carved in round as a mythical beast resting on its haunches accentuated with tightly closed toenails and picked out with flaming motifs, the head slightly turned and crowned with two long horns, the face rendered with bulging eyes, small pointed ears and a ridged nose and ruyi-shaped nostrils above a curled beard, its bushy tail tri-furcated and curling up to its neck, the semi-translucent stone of even white tone with a small russet inclusion on the beast's horn, box. 5.4cm (2 1/8in) high (2).