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1 décembre 2018

A rare Longquan celadon figure of Budai, Ming dynasty, 15th century

A rare Longquan celadon figure of Budai, Ming dynasty, 15th century

Lot 605. A rare Longquan celadon figure of Budai, Ming dynasty, 15th century; 15.7 cm, 6 1/8  inEstimate 50,000 — 70,000 HKD. Lot sold 237,500 HKD. © Sotheby's.

depicted reclining against his cloth bag and wearing loose robes revealing his corpulent body, covered overall in an olive-green glaze save for the face, chest, hands and feet reserved in the reddish-brown biscuit, wood stand.
Provenance: A French collection, by 1923 (label).
Tai Sing Fine Antiques Ltd., Hong Kong, 18th October 2001.
Property from the Xinyangtang Collection.
Note: For a closely related figure of Budai of slightly larger size, from the Sir A.W. Franks collection and now preserved in the British Museum, London (inv. no. OA F.958), see Jessica Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, cat. no. 16:98. Compare also a Longquan celadon figure of Buddha sold in our London rooms, 12th July 1960, lot 123 and 14th May 2008, lot 332, from the Carl Kempe collection.
 
Sotheby's. Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 29 november 2018
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