Lot 452
452
A SMALL BUFFALLO HORN FIGURE OF WENSHU

Details
A SMALL BUFFALLO HORN FIGURE OF WENSHU
18TH CENTURY

The bodhisattva shown seated on the back of a lion, wearing flowing robes and holding a string of beads in her left hand and a ruyi scepter in the right, her hair tied in a topknot, traces of pigment to hair
3¾in. (9.6cm.) high
Exhibited
London, Spink and Son, Ltd., The Minor Arts of China, March 15-25, 1983, no. 29

Lot Essay

Compare the larger rhinoceros horn carving of Wenshu from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection, sold in these rooms, December 1, 1994, lot 40

Refer, also, to Jan Chapman's article, "Carvings in Rhinoceros Horn and their Buffalo Horn Imitations", Orientations, January 1988, pp. 40-46