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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 3, 2018 | Sotheby's | Hong Kong | Arcadian Beauty – Exceptional Works from the Song Dynasty | 3113 | $****** - ****** | AN EXCEPTIONALLY LARGE AND RARE INSCRIBED JADE FIGURE OF A BUFFALO |
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40 cm (15.75 in)
Collection of Natasha du Breuil (1891-1966), assembled in Beijing and Tianjin in the 1930s and 1940s, and thence by descent.
Christie's London, 11th November 2003, lot 65.
miniminally worked to conform to the natural contours of the impressively substantial boulder, depicting a recumbent buffalo with its head turned to its left to face backwards and a tail tucked under its hind leg, the beast marked with subtle rounded outlines forming the muscular body and further rendered with a pair of small furled ears and long curved horns, the underside of the boulder incised and filled in with gilt with a fourteen-character inscription translating as 'The spirit of Chou (buffalo) provides the foundation for food, brings joy to tens of thousands of people, and forms the basis of the harvest year by year', dated to the bingyin year of the Qianlong reign (in accordance with 1746) and followed by two seal marks reading Qianlong chenhan (‘the Qianlong Emperor’s literary and artistic work’) and Xintian Zhuren ('ruler who believes in Heaven'), the variegated yellowish-celadon stone extensively mottled with reddish-brown and black patches
