Water Buffalo 18th century China Ingeniously shaped out of a massive dark green nephrite boulder from the riverbed of Yarkand, in northwestern China, this sculpture weighs more than forty pounds. The cunning naturalistic details, including a whorl of hair on the animal’s forehead, demonstrate the observant eye of a master carver in the eighteenth Water Buffalo. China. 18th century. Jade (nephrite). Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Jade

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