J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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22.
A JADE FIGURE OF A WATER BUFFALO
Shang Dynasty, 12th – 11th Century B.C.
carved as a free-standing sculpture with thick flattened body, the large head with lightly incised round eyes, the blunt muzzle drilled through with a biconical hole for the nostrils, the curved horns with shallow incised ribbing above small leaf shaped ears, the broad smooth flanks rising to a rounded backbone with a hump at the shoulders, the long tail accentuated by small drilled indentations on both sides, standing on wide conjoined legs, the rectangular feet divided by deep grooves across the base, the cloudy opaque stone of slightly mottled pale greenish tone, with softly polished surface.
Length 2 1⁄2 inches (6.4 cm)
Compare the slightly smaller Shang dynasty jade recumbent buffalo carved in low relief illustrated by Loehr, Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1975, p. 125, no. 152.
商 玉牛 長 6.4 厘米
22.
A JADE FIGURE OF A WATER BUFFALO
Shang Dynasty, 12th – 11th Century B.C.
Length 2 1⁄2 inches (6.4 cm)