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Chinese 中国 Jade 玉 Chimera 龙 Carving - Beautifully Carved Piece 清朝 - $5,000
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Beautiful Asian Jade Carving, possibly dating back a few centuries. Quite a few pieces of this sort are listed as originating in China's Song Dynastic period, dating to 960 A.D., but most (like this one) are probably later copies of the original period art. I would date this piece as having been carved during the Qing Dynasty (~1644-1912), but that's an educated guess, not a provable fact. Like the Asian Foo Dog (or Foo Lion), this type of statue was originally intended as a house or sometimes as a tomb guardian, designed to scare away evil spirits by it's fierceness. Later the original intent was lost or ignored, and new carvings of these fierce guardians were treated simply as beautiful pieces of art during the Ming Dynasty, when Asian art flourished. At any rate, this statue is a beautiful deep green, with areas showing whitish mineralization that forms from long periods of contact with damp soil, such as being buried. This is a fairly large example of it's type,