明末/清初 黃楊木雕仙人立像

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.