拍品的状况可能存在极大差异，而由于其性质使然，拍品难以处于完美无瑕的状态。拍品均以拍卖时的状况出售。

We have sought to record the changes in the condition of this piece acquired after its initial manufacture.
-chipping to the boy’s strand of hair, to the boy’s proper right thumb, and the majority of the flute in the boy’s hands is missing
- multiple repaired breaks, including to boy’s neck, both arms, boy’s proper right shin, the buffalo’s proper right horn
- the boy has been reattached to the buffalo with associated overpainting to the boy’s robe - cracks with associated small loss to glass to the buffalo’s haunch
- some minor glaze loss on the molding lines of the buffalo