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A LONGQUAN CELADON-GLAZED ‘LUDUAN’ INCENSE A LONGQUAN CELADON-GLAZED FIGURE OF THE
BURNER AND COVER BODHISATTVA WENSHU RIDING A BUDDHIST LION
16th century Ming Dynasty
The mythical beast standing four-square with a bulbous body Stoutly modelled wearing a leafy cap above the biscuit face and chest
intricately incised with scales and flames, the cover shaped as the with an elaborate necklace, enveloped by a thick green shawl and
animal’s head with bulging eyes, a single horn, mouth agape and bearing a long curving ruyi sceptre, seated cross-legged on the back
flowing mane below the chin, covered overall with a lustrous green of a luxuriously ornamented Buddhist lion covered in a rich celadon
glaze, Japanese wood box. glaze.
13cm (5 1/8in) high (3). 22.8cm (9in) high

£3,000 - 5,000 CNY28,000 - 46,000 £4,000 - 6,000 CNY37,000 - 55,000
HK$33,000 - 55,000 HK$44,000 - 66,000

十六世紀 龍泉青釉甪端式小薰爐 明 龍泉青釉文殊騎獅像

For a related biscuit and celadon-glazed figure of the Bodhisattva
Puxian riding an elephant, see J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the
British Museum, London, 2001, p.501, noting that this would have
been paired with Wenshu, the Buddhist Bodhisattva of Universal
Wisdom.

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