AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE SET OF BAMBOO DAOIST IMMORTALS
AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE SET OF BAMBOO DAOIST IMMORTALS QING DYNASTY, LATE 18TH CENTURY The serene figures are all delicately carved from bamboo root, each representing a Daoist immortal with fine hair and facial features, including Lu Dongbin who is depicted with his small gourd, holding a fly whisk and wearing a sword on his back; Li Tieguai, sitting cross-legged with his iron crutch and a gourd containing his spirit; He Xiangu, dressed in flowing robes, carrying a lotus pod on its long stem and a lingzhi fungus; Zhang Guolao, with one hand supporting a bamboo tube over his shoulder and clappers in the other; Zhong Liquan, clutching a plantain leaf fan and cleaning his ear with a pick; Cao Guojiu, beating a large pair of castanets; Han Xiangzi, holding a tasselled flute to his mouth; and Lan Caihe with a hoe and a basket of flowers, each figure is seated on a rockwork base and incised with two seal script characters, Shimin , within a rectangle border 3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) highest, box (8)
AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE SET OF BAMBOO DAOIST IMMORTALS
AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE SET OF BAMBOO DAOIST IMMORTALS QING DYNASTY, LATE 18TH CENTURY The serene figures are all delicately carved from bamboo root, each representing a Daoist immortal with fine hair and facial features, including Lu Dongbin who is depicted with his small gourd, holding a fly whisk and wearing a sword on his back; Li Tieguai, sitting cross-legged with his iron crutch and a gourd containing his spirit; He Xiangu, dressed in flowing robes, carrying a lotus pod on its long stem and a lingzhi fungus; Zhang Guolao, with one hand supporting a bamboo tube over his shoulder and clappers in the other; Zhong Liquan, clutching a plantain leaf fan and cleaning his ear with a pick; Cao Guojiu, beating a large pair of castanets; Han Xiangzi, holding a tasselled flute to his mouth; and Lan Caihe with a hoe and a basket of flowers, each figure is seated on a rockwork base and incised with two seal script characters, Shimin , within a rectangle border 3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) highest, box (8)
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