Compare to a very similar figure seated on a rectangular bench, sold in our New York Rooms, 2 December 1989, lot 51. Compare also, the figures of Cai Shen in porcelain seated on a similar gilt-bronze horseshoe back armchair from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, cf. S.Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, col.pl.33 and p.228, fig.222