Lot 26. A very rare carved wood seated figure, Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD); 38cm (15in) high. Estimate £4,000 - 6,000. Sold for £ 4,812 (€ 5,619). Photo Bonhams.

The figure carved seated cross-legged with large rounded shoulders and back, the round face with jovial expression, tilted slightly to the right, both hands holding his rotund belly, stand.  

Property from the Collection of John J. Studzinski, CBE

Provenance: Jacques Barrere, Paris, 8 December 2005
John J. Studzinski, CBE.

Published and illustrated: Jacques Barrere, Catalogue, Paris, 1998, pp.110-111.

Note: The present lot most probably originates from Sichuan Province, which has a long tradition of depicting lively, caricature-like effigies of humans, as is evident in some of its pottery figures of entertainers, such as a figure of a grimacing drummer in the Sichuan Provincial Museum; see R.Bagley, Ancient Sichuan: Treasures from a Lost Civilization, Seattle, 2001, p.298, no.111.

Bonhams. Fine Chinese Art, London, 7 Nov 2019