Page 216 - China's Renaissance in Bronze, The Robert H.CIague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes 1100-1900

53 Figurine

representing a standing, armor-clad Daoist deity

Ming to Qing dynasty, seventeenth century
Cast bronze with cast and cold-worked surface details and with a
chiseled intaglio inscription in standard-script (kaishu) characters
on a plaque worn at the figure's waist
25.4 centimeter height
Clague Collection Number 268