Lot 21 A Staffordshire Whieldon type creamware model of a boy riding a water buffalo, circa 1755-60
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| 拍卖公司 | 邦瀚斯 |
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| 拍卖时间 | 2026年07月01日 |
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拍品名称
A Staffordshire Whieldon type creamware model of a boy riding a water buffalo, circa 1755-60
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GBP 2,000
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After a Chinese original, the animal naturalistically modelled without a base, standing with its head lowered, with a comical face and open mouth, a Chinese boy or deity seated on the beast's shoulders clutching a fruit in his hands, decorated overall with a mottled brown tortoiseshell glaze, 20cm high
Footnotes
Provenance
With Jonathan Horne, 1993;
Longridge Collection, Christie's New York, 24 January 2011, lot 150
Literature
White, Mary, Beasts at the Whites' House, Vol.1, 2020, p.11
Several models of water buffalo were produced in Staffordshire inspired by Chinese originals, either with riders in various positions or standing alone beside trees. Similar examples with various riders are illustrated by Pat Halfpenny, English Earthenware Figures, 1991, pp.43-45, alongside a fragment of a buffalo leg excavated on the site of Thomas Whieldon's pottery in Fenton Vivian. Another is illustrated by Leslie B Grigsby, , p.354, no.208. See also the example from the Sampson and Horne Collection sold by Bonhams on 28 April 2010, lot 234 and that sold on 14 November 2018, lot 265.
Footnotes
Provenance
With Jonathan Horne, 1993;
Longridge Collection, Christie's New York, 24 January 2011, lot 150
Literature
White, Mary, Beasts at the Whites' House, Vol.1, 2020, p.11
Several models of water buffalo were produced in Staffordshire inspired by Chinese originals, either with riders in various positions or standing alone beside trees. Similar examples with various riders are illustrated by Pat Halfpenny, English Earthenware Figures, 1991, pp.43-45, alongside a fragment of a buffalo leg excavated on the site of Thomas Whieldon's pottery in Fenton Vivian. Another is illustrated by Leslie B Grigsby, , p.354, no.208. See also the example from the Sampson and Horne Collection sold by Bonhams on 28 April 2010, lot 234 and that sold on 14 November 2018, lot 265.
