清十八世紀 青白玉牧童水牛擺件QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY清十八世紀 青白玉牧童水牛擺件4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) longThe style of carving of the current buffalo group is very similar to that of a horse group in the Avery Brundage Collection, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, which shares a similar base supporting a figure grooming a horse carved in the round, finished with an satiny polish, see Chinese Jades in the Avery Brundage Collection, San Francisco, 1997, cover and Plate XLIV.Details A PALE CELADON JADE BUFFALO AND BOY GROUPQING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURYThe jade is naturalistically carved with a standing buffalo grasping a stalk of millet in its mouth, with a boy crouched down with a playful expression and tugging at the stalk of the millet. A long rope trails from the buffalos nostrils, looping over its back and connecting to the nostril of its young.4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) long Provenance P.C. Lu & Sons, Hong Kong, 1975Sold at Christie’s London, 10 May 2011, lot 128 Conditions of sale