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A RARE PAIR OF GILT-BRONZE FIGURES OF WATER BUFFALO
LATE MING-EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
Each buffalo is shown standing with the head slightly turned to one side, with
round eyes and a ruyi-shaped nose, framed by a pair of curved horns above
pointed ears. The back of the neck and hunched shoulders have folded skin
leading to a muscular body and a long tail tucked alongside one hind leg.
7º in. (18.4 cm.) long

$20,000-30,000
PROVENANCE:
The Pan-Asian Collection (Christian Humann, d. 1981), New York, by 1981.
Christie's New York, 1 December 1982, lot 302.
James Godfrey, New York, 1983.
A similar gilt-bronze figure of a buffalo of comparable size, dated late
Ming-Qing dynasty, was sold in Gods and Beasts – Gilt Bronzes from the
Speelman Collection, Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 April 2014, lot 90.

明末/清初 十七/十八世紀 鎏金銅牛一對
來源:
泛亞珍藏 (Christian Humann, 1981年逝), 紐約, 1981年前入藏。
紐約佳士得, 1982年12月1日, 拍品編號 302。
James Godfrey, 紐約, 1983年。

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