Sale 2388
Hong Kong
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27 November 2007
Price realised
HKD 2,647,500
Estimate
A RARE THREE COLOUR JADE GROUP OF A BUFFALO AND QILIN MING DYNASTY, 16TH/17TH CENTURY The large group well carved as a recumbent buffalo with its head turned to the left with wispy ruyi clouds issuing from its mouth, falling and gathering to form a platform for a smaller qilin seated playfully on its left side, cleverly carved using the green portion of the jade, the buffalo's broad back highlighted in russet tones above a long stem of millet to the reverse, the stone of graduating tone from pale celadon to bright green, with russet surface inclusions 7 1/8 in. (17.9 cm.) long
Provenance
Victor Topper, Toronto, Canada Sotheby's London, 20 October 1969, lot 155
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Literature
Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, no. 60
Exhibited
Christie's New York, 13-26 March 2001 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, August 2003 - December 2004
Previously sold at Sotheby's London, 20 October 1969, lot 155.
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