Sale 7878
London
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9 November 2010
Price realised
GBP 12,500
Estimate
A LARGE GREYISH-GREEN JADE RECUMBENT BUFFALO 19TH CENTURY The animal naturalistically carved with its legs neatly tucked under the body with the tail gently flicked over the hindquarters, the head turned to the side and slightly raised, with long curling horns and projecting ears to either sides, the stone of a greyish-green tone with bands of white mottling and black specking 9 in. (23 cm.) long
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 21 June 1977, lot 243. With William Clayton Ltd., London, purchased on 11 August 1977. The Clive D. Collins Collection.
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