A WHITE JADE 'BUFFALO AND BOYS' GROUP

细节

A WHITE JADE 'BUFFALO AND BOYS' GROUP
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

Well carved in the round with a recumbent buffalo grasping a stalk of millet in its mouth, with one of the He He Erxian twins playfully clambering onto its back and the other coaxing it with a rope tied through the buffalo's nostrils, the creamy stone with a slight celadon tinge and small areas of russet inclusions
3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) long

来源

Christie's London, 3 November 1969, lot 140
Spink and Son Ltd., London

出版

Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 172

展览

Christie's New York, 13-26 March 2001
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, August 2003 - December 2004

拍品专文

Compare the present carving to an earlier Ming dynasty celadon jade group of similar composition, included in the Min Chiu Society Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition, Selected Treasures of Chinese Art, 1991, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 219; an early Qing dynasty white jade group from the Gerald Godfrey Private Collection of Fine Chinese Jades, sold in these Rooms, 30 October 1995, lot 893; and another, dated to the 18th/19th century, sold in these Rooms, 28 April 2004, lot 1230.

The subject of the buffalo and its boy minders is very popular and can be found in paintings, ceramics, bronzes and in jade carvings from the Yuan dynasty through to the Qing.