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CHINESE JADES FROM THE COLLECTION OF T. EUGENE WORRELL
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A VERY FINE WHITE JADE `BUFFALO AND BOY’ GROUP One of the favorite images of the rural idyll depicted by Chinese painters
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) such as Li Tang (1050-after 1130) depicts a small boy either riding or leading
The group is carved as a boy standing beside a recumbent water buffalo, with a water buffalo. A painting by Li Tang, Herd Boy with Water Buffalo and Calf,
one hand on the buffalo’s horn and the other pulling a long rope which trails in the National Palace Museum, Taipei is illustrated by A. B. Wicks (ed.) in
over the haunch and underneath the body. The softly polished stone is of an Children in Chinese Art, Honolulu, 2002, p. 54, fig. 2.6. This became a theme
even white tone. seen in small jade carvings of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. A similar
example with a boy riding a water buffalo, dated to the Qianlong period,
3¡ in. (8.7 cm) long from the Anthony K. W. Cheung Collection, is illustrated in the exhibition
catalogue, Virtuous Treasures: Chinese Jades for the Scholar's Table,
$40,000-60,000 University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, 2007, pp.
170-71, no. 96.
PROVENANCE:
George de Menasce (1891-1967) Collection, London, no. 31.
Rare Art, New York, April 1996. T. EUGENE WORRELL珍藏中國玉器
清乾隆 白玉牧童戲牛擺件
EXHIBITED:
Charlottesville, Worrell Family Offices Gallery,1996-2022. 來源:
George de Menasce (1891-1967)珍藏, 倫敦, 編號31
Rare Art, 紐約佳士得, 1996年4月
展覽:
夏洛茨維爾, Worrell家族藝廊, 1996-2022年

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