WHITE JADE WITH RUSSET SKIN CARVING OF A BUFFALO WITH BOYS
QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
£7,500
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 14 May 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
清 白玉帶皮雕童子牧牛擺件
delicately carved in round with a recumbent water buffalo with its right foreleg half raised and the rest tucked underneath its body, two herd-boys on its right side with one holding a long rope to control the animal, the white stone with russet inclusions
Dimensions
7cm wide
Footnote
Provenance: Private English collection, acquired from Christie's London "The Art of China: Featuring the Arnhold Collection, Sale 17412, lot 51; previously in the collection of the late Gerard Arnhold (1918-2010) , who donated part of his collection to Durham University Oriental Museum, and sold part of the collection at Christie's in 2019
Note: a closely comparable jade carving of boy with water buffalo, dated to the Qianlong period, is in the Florence and Herbert Irving jade collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number: 2015.500.5.15