A BRONZE FIGURE OF A SEATED IMMORTALLate Ming Dynasty
The ascetic figure perched on top of a plinth, apparently in a rocky sea, his head shaved except for a pigtail, holding a ruyi along his left arm, a rolled scroll beside his right hand resting on his knee, the surface darkly patinated. 27cm (10 1/2in) high.Footnotes明晚期 銅仙人坐像
Provenance: Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 18 November 2005
A European private collection
來源：Ralph M. Chait Galleries，紐約，2005年11月18日
歐洲私人收藏
The present lot could be a representation of the Daoist Immortal Lü Dongbin, patron of all scholars.
Compare with a related bronze figure of an Immortal, illustrated in China's Renaissance in Bronze: The Robert H.Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes 1100-1900, Phoenix, 1993, p.211, no.52. Compare also with related bronze figures of the Daoist Immortal Lü Dongbin, Ming dynasty, illustrated by R.Kerr, Later Chinese Bronzes, London, 1990, pp.82-83, nos.64 and 65. See also a related bronze figure of Lü Dongbin, 16th/17th century, illustrated by M.Maucuer, Bronzes de la Chine Imperiale des Song aux Qing, Paris, 2013, p.156, no.108.
Compare with a related but larger bronze figure of a Daoist Immortal, late Ming dynasty, which was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 6 April 2015, lot 157.
A BRONZE FIGURE OF A SEATED IMMORTALLate Ming Dynasty
The ascetic figure perched on top of a plinth, apparently in a rocky sea, his head shaved except for a pigtail, holding a ruyi along his left arm, a rolled scroll beside his right hand resting on his knee, the surface darkly patinated. 27cm (10 1/2in) high.Footnotes明晚期 銅仙人坐像
Provenance: Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 18 November 2005
A European private collection
來源：Ralph M. Chait Galleries，紐約，2005年11月18日
歐洲私人收藏
The present lot could be a representation of the Daoist Immortal Lü Dongbin, patron of all scholars.
Compare with a related bronze figure of an Immortal, illustrated in China's Renaissance in Bronze: The Robert H.Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes 1100-1900, Phoenix, 1993, p.211, no.52. Compare also with related bronze figures of the Daoist Immortal Lü Dongbin, Ming dynasty, illustrated by R.Kerr, Later Chinese Bronzes, London, 1990, pp.82-83, nos.64 and 65. See also a related bronze figure of Lü Dongbin, 16th/17th century, illustrated by M.Maucuer, Bronzes de la Chine Imperiale des Song aux Qing, Paris, 2013, p.156, no.108.
Compare with a related but larger bronze figure of a Daoist Immortal, late Ming dynasty, which was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 6 April 2015, lot 157.
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