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A WELL-CARVED GREENISH-WHITE JADE 'BUFFALO AND BOY’ GROUP
MING-EARLY QING DYNASTY, 16TH-18TH CENTURY
The group is carved as a recumbent water buffalo with a rope threaded through its nose and running across its haunches, and with a boy playfully climbing onto its back. The boy is shown grasping his straw hat in one hand and a reed stem in the other, with a flute tucked into his belt against his back. The stone is of a pale greenish-white tone with some sparse russet veining cleverly utilized to accent the rope and the buffalo’s back hooves.
5 3/8 in. (13.6 cm.) wide
Provenance
Sotheby's London, 12 June 1990, lot 75.
Exhibited
Charlottesville, Worrell Family Offices Gallery, 1994-2022.
Details
A WELL-CARVED GREENISH-WHITE JADE 'BUFFALO AND BOY’ GROUP
MING-EARLY QING DYNASTY, 16TH-18TH CENTURY
The group is carved as a recumbent water buffalo with a rope threaded through its nose and running across its haunches, and with a boy playfully climbing onto its back. The boy is shown grasping his straw hat in one hand and a reed stem in the other, with a flute tucked into his belt against his back. The stone is of a pale greenish-white tone with some sparse russet veining cleverly utilized to accent the rope and the buffalo’s back hooves.
5 3/8 in. (13.6 cm.) wide
Provenance
Sotheby's London, 12 June 1990, lot 75.
Exhibited
Charlottesville, Worrell Family Offices Gallery, 1994-2022.
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