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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF
DOUGLAS G BUCHER (1947-2023), SOLD
TO BENEFIT THE RENSSELAER COUNTY
HISTORIC SOCIETY/HART CLUETT MUSEUM
352 ¤
A FAHUA-GLAZED SEATED BUDDHA ON
PEDESTAL THRONE
Ming Dynasty, dated by inscription to the twelfth
year of Wanli, corresponding to 1584
Finely molded and comprising in three parts, the
Buddha in padmāsana posture on a lotus seat,
his left hand resting on the knee and right hand to
his heart, glazed overall in ocher-brown except the
curled hair glazed turquoise blue, the leaf-shaped
mandorla with an eleven-character inscription
framed by a green oval medallion within the dark-
brown flaming border, the waisted pedestal of
octagonal shape glazed in turquoise blue.
17 1/4in (43.7cm) high, overall
$3,000 - 4,000

明 萬曆十二年款 法華彩坐佛
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

The inscription may be read as: 萬曆十二年五月
吉日造佛, and may be translated as: Made this
Buddha on an auspicious day in the fifth month of
Wanli twelfth year.

A Fahua-glazed triad of closely related modeling
and color palette, in the collection of the Asian Art
Museum of San Francisco, is illustrated by He Li,
Chinese Ceramics: A New Comprehensive Survey
from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco,
London, 1996, p.241, no.491, dated by inscription
to the forty-sixth year of Wanli (1615). There, Li
notes, 'the hard clay of this piece and the green,
turquoise-blue, and purple glaze, illustrate exactly
the typical Shanxi liuli work of the period.'

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