A RARE LARGE GLAZED TILEWORKS FIGURE OF A SEATED DEITY AND STAND MING DYNASTY

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A RARE LARGE GLAZED TILEWORKS FIGURE OF A SEATED DEITY AND STAND MING DYNASTY

Stiffly seated on a green and yellow plinth with openwork sides, with his hands clasped as if to hold a gui scepter, wearing layered official's robes glazed in green, yellow, aubergine and cream and a turquoise necklace tied with a cord in back, his elaborate official's cap tied beneath the chin of his full, sensitively modeled face glazed in cream with pale mauve detailing the lips and dark mauve the eyes, the separately made stand with openwork waist above a shaped apron, with lion-mask and paw supports, some chips and restoration
46½in. (118.2cm.) high

Provenance

Louise Morgan
J. Pierpont Morgan

Lot Essay

This figure is very similar to the pair of figures sold in these rooms June 3, 1993, lot 276 and is possibly one of the group of seven figures included in the Sotheby Parke Bernet sale of the Louise C. Morgan Collection, sold on the premises at Salutation, West Island, Glen Cove, New York, May 29, 1974, lots 76, 77, 78, 124, 125, 126 and 127, as were the two figures sold on June 3, 1993. This figure may have been lot 76 in the Louise C. Morgan sale, which is noted as holding a gui scepter. Compare, also, another similar single figure from the Helliot Collection, Paris, also sold in these rooms, June 23, 1983, lot 136