1-234-021 - The Museum of East Asian Art/Heritage Images

Yellow jade Brahman bull, Tang dynasty, China, 618-907. A jade animal carving delicately carved in the form of a bullock with a Brahman bull type hump and a ridged back. Its neck, jaws and hocks all have brown-speckled markings. The bullock is lying down and to one side its foreleg is bent as if it is about to rise. The whole objects is carved out of a pebble with one side slightly mottled.