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A SUPERBLY CARVED WHITE JADE 'BUFFALO AND BOY' GROUP
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A SUPERBLY CARVED WHITE JADE 'BUFFALO AND BOY' GROUP

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A SUPERBLY CARVED WHITE JADE 'BUFFALO AND BOY' GROUP
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-95)

Exquisitely carved in the round as a recumbent buffalo with a boy playfully clambering onto its back whilst holding it with a rope tied through the buffalo's nostrils, the stone of even pale celadon tone with russet striation to the underside
5 in. (12.7 cm.) long
来源
William Clayton Ltd., London, 30 February 1970
An English private collection of white jade carvings sold at Christie's London, 4 November 2008, lot 7

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One of the favorite images of the rural idyll depicted by Chinese painters such as Li Tang (c. 1050-after 1130) shows a small boy either riding or leading a water buffalo. A painting by Li Tang, 'Herd Boy with Water Buffalo and Calf', in the National Palace Museum, Taipei is ilustrated by A. B. Wicks (ed.) in Children in Chinese Art, Honolulu, 2002, p. 54, fig. 2.6. This became a theme seen in small jade carvings of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. Two such carvings, where the boy either lies on or is beside the recumbent water buffalo which has a rope through its nostrils, like the present carving, are illustrated by James C.Y. Watt, Chinese Jade from Han to Ch'ing, The Asia Society, New York, 1980, p. 66, nos. 47 and 48.