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Dongfang Shuo (160-93BC) was a Han dynasty
scholar official and court jester according to Sima
Qian’s Records of the Grand Historian. Over time in
later dynasties, however, legends grew around him
that he was an Immortal who had stolen a peach of
longevity from the garden of the Queen Mother of
the West. See a related soapstone figure, illustrated
by M.Eberle, Götter aus Stein: Die Sammlung
chinesischer Specksteinfiguren auf Schloss
Friedenstien Gotha, Gotha, 2015, no. 231.

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A SOAPSTONE FIGURE OF HAN XIANGZI
17th/18th century
The figure crisply carved standing with a flute,
wearing luxurious brocaded robes incised with
cartouches enclosing striding dragons on a wave
ground enhanced with floral spray and cloud motifs
and embellished with black pigment, his head gently
turned to the left with two tufts of hair tied into neat
knots to the sides, the stone of pale green tone,
wood stand.
28cm (11in) high. (2).
£1,200 - 1,500
CNY11,000 - 14,000

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

十七/十八世紀 壽山石雕韓湘子立像

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger
Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2012,
no.97.
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展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》， 242
倫敦，2012年，編號97

See a related soapstone figure but of Laozi, 17th
century, in the Hans Sloane collection at the British
Museum, illustrated by S.Jenyns and W.Watson,
Chinese Art: The Minor Arts II, London, 1965,
pl.182.
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A FINE SOAPSTONE FIGURE OF LÜ DONGBIN
17th/18th century
Finely carved standing upright, his left hand
clutching a ruyi shaped fly-whisk, clad in loose
flowing robes with finely incised hems and
roundels, a sword on his back, the face with serene
expression with a long beard, all beneath a black
cap, set on a large rocky soapstone stand.
38.5cm (15 1/4in) high. (2).
£3,000 - 5,000
CNY27,000 - 45,000

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

十七/十八世紀 壽山石雕呂洞賓像

For related soapstone figures, see M.Cassidy-
Geiger, ‘Changing Attitudes Towards Ethnographic
Material: Re-Discovering the Soapstone Collection
of Augustus the Strong’, in Abhandlungen und
Breichte des Staatlichen Museums fur Volkerkunde
Dresden, Frankfurt, 1994, p.20, no.11.

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