A CARVED IVORY GROUP OF TWO BOYS AND A BUFFALO MING DYNASTY, 16TH / 17TH CENTURY

finely carved with a boy riding a striding water buffalo in a landscape laden with craggy rocks and a gnarled pine tree, wearing a loose robe and a straw hat on his back, walking past a boy with a playful expression seated on the ground, the cream-coloured surface with natural age cracks and an attractive patina

Acquired in Paris between the 1970s and the early 90s.

There are natural age cracks as visible on the photo, a couple of minute chips to the tip-end of the boy riding the buffalo right hand's fingers. A small section of clusters of pine needle is chipped and missing and there is small chip the one other cluster.
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