A white jade carving of an apsara


Ming DynastyThe semi-translucent stone softly polished and carved as a mythical deity in flight wearing a bodice, the hands holding a flower spray, and head turned to one side and rendered in detail with two hair knots, box. 5.5cm (2 1/8in) long (2).
|明 白玉雕飛天童子Compare with a closely related white jade boy carved with a similar design, Song dynasty, illustrated in the Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade 5 Tang, Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, Beijing, 2011, p.111, no.117.參考一件北京故宮藏之宋代白玉童子，形態和本品類似，見《故宮博物院藏品大系：玉器篇》，卷五，北京，2011年，頁111，編號117。