Description: Chinese spinach-green jade boy with buffalo group Qing Dynasty, recumbent buffalo with boy playfully clambering onto its back holding rope, on carved wood stand; the polished mottled deep green stone with veining and inclusions; H2 1/2" W4 1/2" D2 3/4"
(2pcs)
Provenance: Gift of Gladys Walton Dudley (1897-1992)
Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia, sold to benefit the acquisitions fund (1993.17.45a-b)
Literature: Knight, Michael. LATE CHINESE JADE: MING TO EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2007. p.281, no.311
Other Notes: Similar carving sold Christie's Hong Kong 28 Nov. 2006, lot 1423, The Hartman Collection; and the other related examples at the Metropolitan Museum (02.18.438 and 2015.500.5.15).