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A PAIR OF PAINTED SOAPSTONE FIGURES OF FEMALE PROVENANCE
IMMORTALS ON BUDDHIST LIONS Property from a Private European Collection.
17TH-18TH CENTURY
A comparable group showing the female immortal Han Xiangi seated astride
The elegantly attired women are each wearing long robes fnely incised with
foliate decoration, with the hair drawn up into a high topknot. One arm raised a lion is illustrated by Martin Eberle in Götter aus Stein Die Sammlung
as they each sit astride a striding lion with raised tail, and its head raised with chinesischer Specksteinfguren auf Schloss Friedenstein Gotha, 2015, p. 118,
mouth open in a roar. They are supported on a rectangular plinth. The lions are pl. 228.
carved from stone of mottled ivory and reddish colour, and the fgures from
a warm ivory-coloured stone, with traces of gilding and red, green, blue and A similar female immortal and buddhist lion group was sold in Christie’s New
black pigments. York, 22 March 2007, lot 137.
10¬ in. (27 cm.) high
(2) 清十七/十八世紀 壽山石仙女像一對
£25,000-40,000 $36,000-56,000 來源: 歐洲私人珍藏
€29,000-46,000

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