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AN IVORY FIGURE OF BUDAI 明 牙雕布袋和尚坐像
MING DYNASTY
來源：
seated on a rocky ledge with his left leg across 倫敦蘇富比1976年6月29日，編號24
and the right leg raised, clutching a long beaded Spink & Son，倫敦，1984年
necklace in the left hand, the deity cloaked in Patrick Huth Jackson 收藏
long flowing robes falling into voluminous folds 倫敦蘇富比2009年5月13日，編號82
and opening at the front revealing the large belly, Roger Keverne Ltd，倫敦，2010年
the cheerful face with a gentle smile, flanked by 英國私人收藏
a pair of long pendulous ears, the ivory patinated
to an attractive creamy tone suffused with light 出版：
caramel patches 《Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and
13.1 cm, 5⅛ in. Ceramics: Summer Exhibition》，Roger
Keverne Ltd，倫敦，2010年，圖版108
PROVENANCE

Sotheby’s London, 29th June 1976, lot 24.
Spink & Son, London, 1984.
Collection of Patrick Huth Jackson.
Sotheby’s London, 13th May 2009, lot 82.
Roger Keverne Ltd, London, 2010.
An English private collection.

LITERATURE

Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and Ceramics:
Summer Exhibition, Roger Keverne Ltd, London,
2010, pl. 108.

◉ HK$ 150,000-200,000
US$ 19,200-25,600

Comparable carvings of Budai, also modelled with
a broad smile and loose robes revealing his round
belly, include a slightly larger one, attributed to
the sixteenth to seventeenth century, in the Art
Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, included in
the Gallery’s exhibition, Magnificent Ivories of
Ming and Qing China at the Art Gallery of Greater
Victoria, Canada, 2001, cat. no. 14; and a smaller
figure sold at Christie’s New York, 25th March
2010, lot 868.

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