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86-a - A Qingbai Water Droppers, Yuan dynasty; a recumbent buffalo, naturalistically modelled with its head raised, the mouth slightly open, and with a young boy seated upon its back, covered overall in a pale bluish-white glaze, pooling in the recesses and stopping irregularly above the underside and extremities; Four closely related water droppers depicting boys seated atop recumbent xiniu were uncovered from the cargo of the Sinan shipwreck (ca. 1323), and included in the Special Exhibition of Cultural Relics found off Sinan Coast, National Museum of Korea, Seoul, 1977, figs 192, 193, 196, and 197. H:6.5cm; In general good condition; Provenance: The Mennen and Nancy Williams Collection, nos. 240; Exhibited at K. Aga-Oglu, The Williams Collection of Far Eastern Ceramics, Tonnancour Section, Museum of Anthropology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1975, cat. no. 65 and cover pl.
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A Qingbai Water Droppers, Yuan dynasty; a recumbent buffalo, naturalistically modelled with its head raised, the mouth slightly open, and with a young boy seated upon its back, covered overall in a pale bluish-white glaze, pooling in the recesses and stopping irregularly above the underside and extremities; Four closely related water droppers depicting boys seated atop recumbent xiniu were uncovered from the cargo of the Sinan shipwreck (ca. 1323), and included in the Special Exhibition of Cultural Relics found off Sinan Coast, National Museum of Korea, Seoul, 1977, figs 192, 193, 196, and 197. H:6.5cm; In general good condition; Provenance: The Mennen and Nancy Williams Collection, nos. 240; Exhibited at K. Aga-Oglu, The Williams Collection of Far Eastern Ceramics, Tonnancour Section, Museum of Anthropology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1975, cat. no. 65 and cover pl.
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