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collections, sold twice in our London rooms, 18th July 1952, This jade buffalo comes from the collection of the Hon. Mrs
lot 50, and again, 9th June 2004, lot 151; the Lord Gladwyn Mary Anna Marten OBE (1929-2010), the goddaughter of
buffalo, offered in our London rooms, 1st November 1966, lot Queen Elizabeth II, and appointed Deputy Lieutenant of
47, and now in the collection of Sir Joseph Hotung, illustrated Dorset and OBE in 1979. Mary Anna Marten was a notable
in Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the archaeologist, and her numerous achievements include
Qing, London, 1995, pl. 26:19; another, from the Bulgari and establishing the Ancient Persia Fund in 1988 in memory of
Richard J. Robertson collections, sold three times at auction, the orientalist Vladimir Lukonin, and serving as Trustee of
most recently in our London rooms, 4th November 2009, lot the British Museum from 1985 until 1998, having twice been
89; and a fourth example, from the Hall Family Collection, sold reappointed, and as Trustee of the Royal Collections. She was
in our Hong Kong rooms, 8th April 2010, lot 1909. The white a keen collector of Chinese art, with a particular interest in
jade Tutein Nolthenius buffalo, included in several exhibitions jade, as well as rare books.
including Oosterse Schatten – 4000 Jaar Aziatische Kunst,
Amsterdam, 1954, cat. no. 86, was sold at Christie’s Hong
Kong, 1st December 2009, lot 2009.

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