A POWERFULLY CARVED AND RARE CELADON JADE FIGURE OF A BIXIE EASTERN HAN DYNASTY skilfully rendered in the form of a bixie prowling with the right front leg striding forward, the mythical beast portrayed staring intensely through bulging eyes below thick curling eyebrows, above a well pronounced snout and agape mouth baring its fangs, the muscular body flanked by a pair of wings dramatically extending from the front haunches and picked out with fine incisions, further depicted with a furcated tail echoing the curved contours of the wings, the white stone with calcified patches 9 cm, 3 1/2 in.
A POWERFULLY CARVED AND RARE CELADON JADE FIGURE OF A BIXIE EASTERN HAN DYNASTY skilfully rendered in the form of a bixie prowling with the right front leg striding forward, the mythical beast portrayed staring intensely through bulging eyes below thick curling eyebrows, above a well pronounced snout and agape mouth baring its fangs, the muscular body flanked by a pair of wings dramatically extending from the front haunches and picked out with fine incisions, further depicted with a furcated tail echoing the curved contours of the wings, the white stone with calcified patches 9 cm, 3 1/2 in.
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