A BLANC-DE-CHINE FIGURE OF BUDAI

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A BLANC-DE-CHINE FIGURE OF BUDAI
17TH/18TH CENTURY

The seated, corpulent figure well modeled leaning comfortably against a large cloth bundle, with right hand resting on his bent knee, wearing loose robes softly draped around his body and falling open to expose his upper torso, his face modeled with a jovial expression heightened by fine stippling to indicate his stubbled beard and side burns, the back incised with a nine-character inscription and impressed with a commendation mark, all under a glaze of ivory tone (small rim chips)
6¾in. (17.1cm.) across

Lot Essay

A similar figure in the Percival David Foundation is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 6, Tokyo, 1982, no. 201; and others are illustrated in the Yamanaka Catalogue, Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art, 1943, nos. 953, 968 and 976