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10 avril 2020

A gilt-lacquered bronze figure of Yuanshi Tianzun, Late Ming Dynasty, cyclically dated to Jimao year, AD 1579 or 1639

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A gilt-lacquered bronze figure of Yuanshi Tianzun Late Ming Dynasty, cyclically dated to Jimao year, corresponding to AD 1579 or 1639 (2)

Lot 93. A gilt-lacquered bronze figure of Yuanshi Tianzun, Late Ming Dynasty, cyclically dated to Jimao year, corresponding to AD 1579 or 1639; The figure 49cm (19 1/4in) high . Estimate £ 10,000-15,000. Sold for £ 35,000 (€ 39,970). Photo Bonhams.

Heavily cast seated on a hardwood stand in the form of a horseshoe-back chair, the Daoist deity wearing long flowing robes tied with ribbons below the chest, his hands closely imitating a Buddhist mudra, the face in a meditative expression with pendulous ears and a long pointed beard, the hair arranged into a topknot secured within a foliate crown, wood stand. 

Provenancean Irish private collection, acquired in China prior to circa 1914, and thence by descent.

NDBYuanshi Tianzun, the Celestial Venerable of the Primordial Beginning or the Primeval Lord of Heaven, is one of the highest deities of religious Taoism. He is one of the Three Pure Ones, and is also known as the Jade Pure One. He resides in the Heaven of Jade Purity. It is believed that he came into being at the beginning of the universe as a result of the merging of pure breaths. He then created Heaven and Earth. (Wikipedia)

Bonhams. FINE CHINESE ART, London, 12 November 2015

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