A LARGE BLANC-DE-CHINE FIGURE OF WENCHANG

17TH CENTURY

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A LARGE BLANC-DE-CHINE FIGURE OF WENCHANG
17TH CENTURY
The Daoist god of Literature shown seated on a rockwork throne, holding a ruyi scepter in his left hand, wearing an official's hat with long tabs, full robes, and two stiff belts that frame his rounded belly, the lower belt with 'jade' plaques, his well-modeled face pierced for attachment of a moustache and beard, the reverse with impressed seal mark, He Chaozong yin
15 1/8 in. (38.4 cm.) high

来源

A.C. Hudson, Esq.; Sotheby's, London, 19 July 1955, lot 90.
Mrs. C.O.G. Christopher; Sotheby & Co., London, 14 April 1970, lot 145.
Bluett, London.

出版

P.J. Donnelly, Blanc De Chine: The Porcelain of Tehua in Fukien, New York and Washington, 1969, p. 145 D.

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A very similar figure of comparable size (39.7 cm.), impressed with a He Chaozong potter's mark, is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. II, London, 1994, p. 302-3, no. 1004.