A FAMILLE ROSE FIGURE OF BUDAI

QIANLONG PERIOD

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A FAMILLE ROSE FIGURE OF BUDAI
Qianlong period
The laughing god shown seated with his bag clasped in one hand and a tasselled strand of gilt prayer beads in the pither, wearing lavendar robes edged in pale seafoam green and creamy yellow patterned borders
8in. (22.2cm) wide

Lot Essay

A very similar figure was sold Sotheby's Monaco, 19 June 1988, lot 1693, and is now in the Copeland Collection at the Peabody Museum of Art, Salem, illustrated by W.S. Sargent, The Copeland Collection; Chinese and Japanese Ceramic Figures, no. 55.

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