QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

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A PALE CELADON JADE 'BUFFALO AND BOY' GROUP
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
The jade is naturalistically carved with a standing buffalo grasping a stalk of millet in its mouth, with a boy crouched down with a playful expression and tugging at the stalk of the millet. A long rope trails from the buffalo's nostrils, looping over its back and connecting to the nostril of its young.
41/4 in. (10.8 cm.) long

Provenance

P.C. Lu & Sons, Hong Kong, 1975
Sold at Christie’s London, 10 May 2011, lot 128

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Lot Essay

The style of carving of the current buffalo group is very similar to that of a horse group in the Avery Brundage Collection, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, which shares a similar base supporting a figure grooming a horse carved in the round, finished with an satiny polish, see Chinese Jades in the Avery Brundage Collection, San Francisco, 1997, cover and Plate XLIV.

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