A BOXWOOD FIGURE OF A STANDING DAOIST IMMORTAL

17TH CENTURY

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A BOXWOOD FIGURE OF A STANDING DAOIST IMMORTAL
17TH CENTURY
Representing one of the Eight Daoist Immortals, either Zhang Guolao or Lu Dongbin, the well-carved figure shown standing on an integral rockwork base, dressed in the belted robes and cloth cap of a scholar, the right hand raised with middle finger extended, the left hand held away from the side with fingers closed to grasp a now-missing object
7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Bluett & Sons, London, no. 2436.
Gerard Hawthorn Ltd., London, 2000.

Exhibited

2000 Years of Chinese and Japanese Sculpture, Gerard Hawthorne Ltd., London, 9 - 17 November, 2000, no. 20.

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Lot Essay

Stylistically the figure is similar to a larger bronze figure of a Daoist immortal in the British Museum, illustrated in Chinese Ivories from the Shang to the Qing, Oriental Ceramic Society and the British Museum, London, 24 May - 19 August 1984, p. 85, no. 79, where the similarity of figures of this type in ivory, wood, and bronze is noted. Two other related bronze figures in the Victoria and Albert Museum are illustrated by R. Kerr in Later Chinese Bronzes, London, 1990, p. 83, pls. 64 and 65.

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