A SMALL CARVED AMBER 'BOY AND BUFFALO' GROUP QING DYNASTY, 17th/18TH CENTURY

the recumbent animal with its legs tucked under its body and its head turned to its rear, the boy perched on the animal's hind quarters holding a lingzhi, the buffalo holding a branch in its mouth supporting the moon inscribed Yue, the translucent amber of warm reddish-brown tone with paler inclusions