MING DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY

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TWO LONGQUAN CELADON FIGURES
MING DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY
The seated Buddha is modelled with an ample belly, his left hand resting on his knee and his right hand against a sack. He is supported on a hollow platform and with two perforations along the back. The second figure is modelled standing holding a large vase, his face with a serene expression and hair in braids looped up. He wears a robe with loose trousers beneath.
8 1/4 in. (21 cm.); 7 3/4 in. (19.8 cm.) high, wood stand, Japanese boxes (2)

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Lot Essay

Many Longquan celadon figures are of Buddhist subjects with unglazed areas depicting the face and bare skin which is a characteristic of the Yuan period. See examples illustrated in Yuan dai ciqi, Beijing, 1998, p. 265, pls. 471-473. Compare also with a seated figure of Daoist Zhenwu from the Edward T. Chow Collection sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 16 December 1980, lot 326; and another sold at Sotheby's London, 7 June 1994, lot 314.

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