Exhibition: The Glorious Traditions of Chinese Bronzes, Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, 2000, published in the exhibition catalogue by Li Xueqin, no. 97.

This very rare animal form, a mythical beast seated on its haunches with wings, is particularly rare in bronze. Several jade examples of this are known: see the figure published in Zhongguo Yuqi Quanji (Complete Anthology of Chinese Jade), vol. 4, Qin, Han to Northern and Southern Dynasties, pl. 251 and 252, from the Eastern Han period, excavated from Yangzhou in 1984, here called a “flying bear”; another example from the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, was included in Chinese Jade throughout the ages, 1975, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, exhibition catalogue, no. 193, referred to as a “Winged Toad”.