246 Field Museum of Natural History — Anth., Vol. X. 



for its curious bit of history. The horse is stated to be of reddish jade, 1 

 the man of yellow jade; the horse's head stands 4^ inches (Chinese) 

 high, its body 4 1 1 inches, and is 5y inches long. In the text it is stated: 

 "Mane and tail are intact, but the four feet were broken off. In the 

 period Chih-chih (1321-1324, Yuan dynasty), the governor of Nan- 





Fig. 153. 



Jade Carving of Standing Horse. 



Feet were restored, and Figure of 



Man was added in the Yuan Period 



(from Ku yii t'u). 



hiung (in Kuang-tung Province) , Chao Po-ang 2 possessed an ancient 

 scroll (with the picture of such a horse) which he exchanged for a porce- 

 lain vessel. The artisan Liu Kia-ming (using this picture as model) 

 was charged with the task of supplementing the missing feet. The 

 master Yao Mu-ngan added the figure of a man of yellow jade to give 

 the horse an assistant in the way of an equery who has the appearance 



1 "Like rouge with spots shining like peach-blossoms, mixed with light green." 



2 Presumably a member of the family of the great painter Chao M6ng-fu (1254- 

 1322). He was not an artist himself as several others of the family; his name does 

 not appear in the Catalogue of Painters Li-tai hua shih hui chuan, Ch. 47. 



