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CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
Details
A FAHUA-TYPE FIGURE OF AN IMMORTAL
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
The figure depicted as an official shown seated on a molded and carved, pierced rockwork base, wearing a loose dragon robe open at the chest and tied in a bow around the midsection, with a basket of fruit to one side, with an inscription on his back reading 'made in the ninth month of the twelfth year of Hongzhi’, corresponding to September and October 1499, and with a maker’s mark, Dong Ziwan.
10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm.) high
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
The figure depicted as an official shown seated on a molded and carved, pierced rockwork base, wearing a loose dragon robe open at the chest and tied in a bow around the midsection, with a basket of fruit to one side, with an inscription on his back reading 'made in the ninth month of the twelfth year of Hongzhi’, corresponding to September and October 1499, and with a maker’s mark, Dong Ziwan.
10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm.) high
Provenance
The Collection of Robert H. Ellsworth, New York, before 1979.
Literature
S. Riddell, Dated Chinese Antiquities, 600-1650, London, 1979, p. 119, no. 106.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
Brought to you by
Gemma Sudlow
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