A RARE PAIR OF SOAPSTONE FIGURES OF IMMORTALS

QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A RARE PAIR OF SOAPSTONE FIGURES OF IMMORTALS
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
One shown with long beard, wearing an official's hat and carrying a long bamboo drum, the other figure holding a large lotus bud, his face with curly goatee, eyebrows and sideburns, his hair covered by a cowl, both figures wearing richly incised layered robes, with traces of black, red and green pigment and gilding highlighting the incised decoration, both figures raised on separate soapstone bases carved as pierced rockwork
15¾ in. (40.1 cm.) high, black stone bases, boxes (2)

來源

Peter Kane, London.
Gerard Hawthorn Ltd., Oriental Art, London, 2001.

拍品專文

The figure on the left in the catalogue illustration is that of Zhang Guolao, one of the Eight Daoist Immortals, and can be identified by the 'Fish Drum' (yugu) that he holds. The accompanying figure may also represent one of the Eight Immortals, although he cannot be positively identified. See two secular soapstone figures of a mandarin and his wife, from the collection of the late The Hon. Mrs. Basil Ionides, dated to the Kangxi period, illustrated by S. Jenyns, Chinese Art III, New York, 1982, p. 208, no. 181.