Buffalo with Rider (early 1300s): Art, History and Details
Buffalo with Rider at the Cleveland Museum of Art: early 1300s, glazed porcelain with iron spots, qingbai ("blue-white") ware. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Buffalo with Rider (early 1300s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
Boys tending buffalos were associated with a carefree life in the countryside free from the duties of officialdom. Water droppers contained water that was used to dissolve ink sticks into liquid ink for brush painting and writing.
Object facts
- Title: Buffalo with Rider
- Date: early 1300s
- Culture: China, Jiangxi Province, Jingdezhen kilns, Yuan dynasty (1271–1368)
- Type: Ceramic
- Technique: glazed porcelain with iron spots, qingbai ("blue-white") ware
- Dimensions: Overall: 6.9 cm (2 11/16 in.)
- Collection: China - Yuan Dynasty
- Department: Chinese Art
- Accession number: 1989.278
Collection credit
Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin
Further reading listed by the museum
- Williams, Marjorie. Chinese Painting--an Escape from the "Dusty" World. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981.
- Catalogue of the Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990.
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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