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*100 The image of a boy with a bufalo was extremely popular and auspicious. In
the catalogue entry for an earlier jade carving of a boy and bufalo in James
A RARE YELLOW AND RUSSET JADE ‘BUFFALO AND BOY’ C. Y. Watt, Chinese Jades From Han to Ch’ing, no. 47, Watt writes that “Boys
GROUP riding on ch’ing-pai porcelain water-droppers of the Yuan period often hold
MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY ears of rice, ho, in their hands, a pun for ho meaning harmony.”

明十七世紀 黃玉水牛牧童擺件 A yellow and russet jade carving of a deer using a very similar stone was sold
in Christies Hong Kong from the Gerald Godfrey collection, 30 October 1995,
The recumbent bufalo is carved with a boy playfully clambering onto its back. lot 858.
The animal is further detailed with a rope tied through its nostrils and over its
back. The stone is of a creamy-yellow tone with some brownish-red russet 來源:歐洲貴族私人珍藏；倫敦古董商Sydney L. Moss. Ltd.；
areas. 於1960年代購自倫敦

3æ in. (9.5 cm.) long

£30,000-50,000 $46,000-76,000
€41,000-68,000

PROVENANCE:

With Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London.
From the collection of a distinguished private European collector, acquired in
London in the 1960s.

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