Lot Essay
This figure of a buffalo should be compared to the group of somewhat larger but very similarly carved beasts which have been widely documented: one example with one horn replaced in gilt-bronze, formerly in the collection of the Rt. Hon. Lord Gladwyn and now in the collection of Sir Joseph Hotung, was included in the exhibition Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, The British Museum, London, 1995, Catalogue no.26:19, and also exhibited Chinese Jade Animals, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1996, Catalogue no.170; two others included in Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages, The Arts Council of Great Britain and The Oriental Ceramic Society, 1975, Catalogue no. 395, from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and no.397, from the collection of Somerset de Chair.