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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND WALTER F. BROWN
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A MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK LACQUER BASIN
WANLI PERIOD (1573-1619)
The interior is decorated in mother-of-pearl with four egrets
separated by lotus and bordered by fish swimming amidst water
plants. The well is decorated with further lotus.
11Ω in. (29.2 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
$3,000-5,000
PROVENANCE:
Roger Keverne, London, 2011.
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio, Texas.

EXHIBITED:
London, Roger Keverne, Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and
Ceramics - Winter Exhibition, 2011.
LITERATURE:
Roger Keverne, Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and Ceramics -
Winter Exhibition, London, 2011, p. 148, no. 114.

明萬曆 黑漆螺鈿一路連科圖盤

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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND WALTER F. BROWN
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A LACQUERED WOOD FIGURE OF THE PILGRIM
SUDHANA
LATE MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY
The figure is shown standing and holding a pearl in his left hand,
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wearing loose robes trimmed in red lacquer with gilt-decorated floral l
scroll.
15 in. (38.1 cm.) high
$6,000-8,000
PROVENANCE:
Roger Keverne, London, 2012.
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio, Texas.
EXHIBITED:
London, Roger Keverne, Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and
Ceramics - Summer Exhibition, 2012.
LITERATURE:
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Roger Keverne, Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and Ceramics -
Summer Exhibition, London, 2012, pp. 138-39, no. 101.
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Sudhana is an acolyte who serves as an attendant to Avalokiteshvara
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in the Pure Land, Potalaka. A wood figure of the pilgrim Sudhana
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dated to the late fifteenth-early sixteenth century is illustrated by
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Denise Patry Leidy and Donna Strahan in Wisdom Embodied: Chinese
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and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, ,
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2010, p. 158, cat. 41. Like the present figure, the Met figure is also
depicted as a youth with hands held in prayer, head raised and eyes
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gazing upturned, and wearing fluttering robes. The authors note that t
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weather conditions of an island near Zhejiang, often identified with
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Potalaka, and a popular pilgrimage site since the twelfth century. .
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晚明十六/十七世紀 漆木善財童子立像
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