LOT 360 A BRONZE FIGURE OF AN IMMORTAL 16th century
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A BRONZE FIGURE OF AN IMMORTAL 16th centuryA BRONZE FIGURE OF AN IMMORTAL16th centuryExpertly cast standing, clad in long flowing robes open at the chest with ribs exposed, the right hand slightly raised, the face with jovial expression and surmounted by a cloth cap. 22cm (8 1/2in) high. Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價十六世紀 銅仙人立像The present lot could be a representation of the Daoist Immortal Lu Dongbin. See a similar 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 Lu 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 Lu 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 slightly 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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