Rawson illustrates an even larger recumbent buffalo from the Sir Joseph Hotung Collection, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, no. 26:19, also shown in Chinese Jade Carving, Catalogue, 1983, no 160. Although the Godfrey example is more simply carved it shares several characteristics with the Hotung jade. Both depict a water buffalo with head turned to one side, both are larger than the standard animal carvings and both are carved from a dark greyish-green stone. Rawson notes of the Hotung buffalo "The figure belongs to a small and relatively distinct group of creatures, mainly horses and buffaloes, carved on a larger scale than was general for animals in jade. Further, they are all in the same range of green opaque stones of different shades." In the absence of material to date these figures precisely she records that "for the moment the traditional date of the Ming to the Qing transition is adopted. Two other larger reclining buffaloes are illustrated in Chinese Jade throughout the Ages, Catalogue, nos. 395 and 397, measuring 43.2 and 36.6cm. respectively. Although considerably larger than the present example, all three share the features described above and have the same incised spiral to the crown of the head.