18TH 19TH CENTURY

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SEVEN SMALLL CHINESE TURQUOISE-GLAZED JOSS-STICK HOLDERS; AND ANOTHER, SIMILAR
18th 19th century
Comprising a set of four crouching mythical beasts, qilin, with their heads turned sharply to the left, and three models of Budai, the god of happiness, modelled in a seated pose, each with a short cylindrical joss-stick holder to one side; and another model of Budai with open front to form a receptacle
all approximately 2¾ in. (7cm.) wide (8)

Provenance

Two figures of Budai bear the label: Currie Collection

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Lot Essay

Two similar joss-stick figures of Budai are in the collection of Anthony de Rothschild at Ascott, illustrated by Regina Krahl, The Anthony de Rothschild Collection of Chinese Ceramics, London, 1996, pp.420 and 421, no.238; and in The George Eumorfopoulos Collection, illustrated by R. L. Hobson, vol.V, London, 1925-8, plate XXXVIII, fig.E.274.

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