Two Buffalo-shaped Rhytons—china, 17th Century, Kangxi Period

Two sancai-glazed buffalo-form rhytons.
China, 18th
Kangxi Period (1661–1722)

Height : 7,7cm
Lenght : 11,8cm

Provenance :

Edward Rathbone Bacon (1846-1915)
Christie's, London, 8th June 1987, lot 80
Marvin Davidson Collection
Marchant Asian Art, London
European private collection

For a similar model, see:

- Collecting Chinese Export Porcelain, Elinor Gordon, 1977, p. 93, no. 80.

- Christie’s Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, Anthony du Boulay, 1984, no. 13, p. 297.

For a turquoise-glazed model, see:

- The Copeland Collection: Chinese and Japanese Ceramic Figures, W. Sargent, 1991, p. 85, fig. 32.

For an identical rhyton formerly with R. M. Chait Galleries, New York, see:

- Sotheby’s, New York, Important Americana, 24 January 2014, lot 32.

This pair was exhibited at the Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Cologne: Kostbare Chinesische Keramik, 1965, cat. no. 151, pl. 27.