A MOTTLED RUSSET JADE BUFFALO-FORM PENDANT

WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, C. 1100 – 771 BC

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A MOTTLED RUSSET JADE BUFFALO-FORM PENDANT
WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, C. 1100 – 771 BC
The jade is carved in the form of a buffalo standing foursquare with its head facing forward with pointed ears delineated in shallow relief. A tiny circular aperture is drilled through the chin and the lower mouth. The stone ranges in colour from caramel to dark brown.
2 in. (5.2 cm.) wide, box

Provenance

Lantien Shanfang Collection, acquired in Taipei in 1992

Lot Essay

A jade carving of a buffalo of nearly identical proportion, and similarly pierced with an aperture through the chin and lower mouth, was excavated from tomb no. BRM1-yi of the Western Zhou Yu State tomb complex at Baoji city, Shaanxi province, illustrated in Yuguo Jade Wares, Beijing, 2010, p. 148 (185).

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