A spinach jade carving of a buffalo 19th / 20th Century

the spinach-green stone with a few black flecks, carved as a recumbent buffalo turning its head to one side, with its tail flicked up over its rear haunches and legs tucked under the body, incised with a small star to the forehead between the gently ridged horns, wood stand (2)

Compare a related spinach-green jade caving of a recumbent buffalo exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and illustrated in George Kuwayama, Chinese Jade from Southern California Collections, Los Angeles, 1976, cat.no. 30.