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A WELL-CARVED BEIGE AND BROWN JADE FIGURE OF 宋 元 褐玉臥➐
A RECUMBENT WATER BUFFALO
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to one side and the tailed flicked to up onto the rump. The stone is of a warm beige tone with
fine veining and areas of brown to the underside. 展覽
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PROVENANCE:
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Malcolm Barnett, The Kirknorton Collection, Hong Kong.
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Anthony Carter, London, 12 July 2000.
編號
The LJZ Collection, United States.
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London, Carter Fine Art Ltd., Naturalism & Archaism: Chinese Jades from the Kirknorton 編號
Collection, 1995.
LITERATURE:
B. Morgan and Li Boqian, Naturalism & Archaism: Chinese Jades from the Kirknorton
Collection, London, 1995, no. 22.
A. Carter, The LJZ Collection of Chinese Jades, London, 2022, pp. 18-19, no. 4.
The relaxed, naturalistic pose of the present water buffalo is similar to that of another
jade figure illustrated by Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing,
British Museum, 1995, pp. 370-71, no. 26.14, where it is dated Song dynasty or later. The
naturalism of the pose can be compared to that of two stone paper weights in the shape of
mythical, horned animals shown in a reclining position with heads raised that were found
in a Southern Song tomb at Zhejiang Zhuji xian, p. 356, fig. 10. Water buffaloes were not
highly represented in the repertoire of pre-Ming jade carvings, but may have become more
popular during the Song and Yuan dynasties when ceramic and bronze water droppers in
the shape of a water buffalo were popular. See, for example, the Longquan water dropper
dated 13th-14th century illustrated in Jenny F. So, Chinese Jades from the Cissy and Robert
Tang Collection, Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2015, p. 183, fig. 37.2.

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