Song Dynasty
Naturalistically modelled with its head raised, its long ears swept backwards, the front paws and the hind legs tucked under the muscular haunches, center of the figure pierced with a rectangular hole for suspension or fastening as a toggle, the bottom with light russet inclusions.
1 13/16in (4.6cm) across
Footnotes
宋 玉雕兔形墜飾
In Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, Jessica Rawson discusses how jade carvings of rabbits or hares became favorable during the Song period perhaps because of their association with the moon, where they were said to pound the elixir of immortality.
Compare a rabbit carving with its head bent over its paws, recorded in ibid., p.365, fig. 26:9, which was later sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 9 Octover 2022, The Personal Collection of the late Sir Joseph Hotung: Part 1, lot 102; another jade rabbit toggle similarly carved with its head raised, is in the collection of Palace Museum, Taipei, museum no. 故玉000726N000000000.
常见问题
这件宋 玉雕兔形墜飾 | A JADE CARVED 'RABBIT' TOGGLE的成交价是多少?