拍品 1372
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A GILT-LACQUERED BRONZE FIGURE OF ZHENWU
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A GILT-LACQUERED BRONZE FIGURE OF ZHENWU

MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY

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A GILT-LACQUERED BRONZE FIGURE OF ZHENWU
MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY
Shown stiffly seated with hands on his knees and wearing long robes over his armor cast with a leaping dragon shown in profile beneath his court belt, his long hair combed back smoothly to below his waist, with extensive remnants of gilt lacquer
18 3/8 in. (46.7 cm.) high, wood stand

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Other bronze images of Zhenwu dating to the Ming dynasty are illustrated by S. Little in Taoism and the Arts of China, Chicago, 2000, pp. 294-95; and by P. Moss in The Second Bronze Age: Later Chinese Metalwork, London, 1991, no. 4. Another from the Guangdong Provincial Museum is illustrated in The Studio and the Altar: Daoist Art in China, Hong Kong, 2008, p. 60.