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Lot Essay
This large green and yellow-glazed Buddhist shrine can be related to a very large figure of Budai in The British Museum which is similarly decorated with green and yellow glazes and incised with a Chenghua reign mark corresponding to 1484. See J. Harrison-Hall, Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p. 539-540, no. 19:1, and p. 537 where the author notes that such large-scale figures designed for temples were produced in specially built small kilns, and that they were made in section moulds, finished by hand, and then glazed.
Ceramics and porcelain designed for religious use and decorated with green and yellow glazed appear to have been particularly popular during the Chenghua period. Compare, for example, a green and yellow-glazed incense burner in the form of a duck, with a Chenghua mark and of the period, excavated from the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen, and illustrated in A Legacy of Chenghua: Imperial Porcelain of the Chenghua Reign Excavated from Zhushan, Jingdezhen, The Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1993, pp. 156-157, no. C34.
Ceramics and porcelain designed for religious use and decorated with green and yellow glazed appear to have been particularly popular during the Chenghua period. Compare, for example, a green and yellow-glazed incense burner in the form of a duck, with a Chenghua mark and of the period, excavated from the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen, and illustrated in A Legacy of Chenghua: Imperial Porcelain of the Chenghua Reign Excavated from Zhushan, Jingdezhen, The Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1993, pp. 156-157, no. C34.