Despite the importance of astrology in Chinese culture, representations of the twelve zodiac creatures are relatively rare, especially in jade. A complete set of twelve white jade astrological animals, each with a human body and animal head, bearing an attribute, was exhibited in New York, Chinese Jade through the Centuries, China House, 1969, Catalogue no. 75; and again in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Three Dynasties of Jade, Catalogue no. 28; and illustrated by R. Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, pl. 183. Another set is in the Qing court collection, Beijing, and illustrated in Jadeware (III), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 111.