LATE SHANG-EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 12TH-10TH CENTURY BC

Compare the similar jade water buffalo carved in flat relief and dated to the Shang dynasty in the Mrs. Edward Sonnenschein Collection, Chicago, illustrated by A. Salmony, Carved Jade of Ancient China, 1938, pl. XXIII (8). See, also, the example in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, illustrated by J. Rawson, 'Animal Motifs in Early Western Zhou Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Chinese Bronzes: Selected articles from Orientations, 1983-2000, Hong Kong, p. 20, fig. 12.