Lot Essay
Budai Heshang, the monk with the cloth sack, is regarded as a manifestation of Maitreya
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A BLANC-DE-CHINE FIGURE OF BUDAI HESHANG
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A BLANC-DE-CHINE FIGURE OF BUDAI HESHANG
18TH/19TH CENTURY
The laughing, corpulent figure shown seated on a rope-bound base with his right arm supported by a cloth sack, holding prayer beads in his left hand, his right resting atop a cord-tied double-gourd flask with cover, covered in a glaze of milky tone, small glaze chip
6½in. (16.5cm.) high
18TH/19TH CENTURY
The laughing, corpulent figure shown seated on a rope-bound base with his right arm supported by a cloth sack, holding prayer beads in his left hand, his right resting atop a cord-tied double-gourd flask with cover, covered in a glaze of milky tone, small glaze chip
6½in. (16.5cm.) high