The figure shown holding a fan and wearing loose robes tied at the lower chest, seated side-saddle on the back of a buffalo, the beast standing foursquare on a shaped base.

Provenance: C.T. Loo & Company, New York, 12 June 1949. 
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., New York, 1949-1960. 
Estate of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 1960. 
Acquired 10 November 1960.

Literature: R. Ellsworth et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Arts of Asia and Neighboring Cultures, New York, 1993, vol III, p. 90, no. 44.

Christie's. The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller: Travel and Americana, New York, 10 May 2018