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PROPERTY FROM THE QUEK KIOK LEE
COLLECTION
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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE
SEATED FIGURE OF SHOULAO
WANLI PERIOD (1573-1619)
The god of Longevity, with his characteristic
elongated bald cranium, is shown seated on
a kneeling deer and holding a ruyi sceptre, all
raised on a facetted rectangular base decorated
with a recumbent crane to his right and a
climbing tortoise to his left. His beard and the
folds of his robes are highlighted with blue
lines.
10 º in. (26.3 cm.) high, box

HK$150,000-250,000
US$20,000-32,000

PROVENANCE
Acquired in Singapore, 8 January 1975
Large blue and white figures of this type
and date, depicting Shoulao seated on a
deer, appear to be quite rare. One in the
British Museum (Franks. 1472) is illustrated
by J. Harrison-Hall in Ming Ceramics in the
British Museum, London, 2002, pp. 324-
325, no. 11:131, where it is dated circa. 1573-
1620. The figure is raised on a separate
plinth and the height overall is 43 cm. As
with the present figure, Shoulao holds a
ruyi sceptre but the decoration throughout
differs from that of the present figure, the
robes being decorated with crane roundels.
Another figure of Shoulao, very similar
and also dated to the Wanli period but
decorated in wucai, is illustrated in
Min Chiu Society, Thirtieth Anniversary
Exhibition: Selected Treasures of Chinese
Art, 1990, no. 149.

明萬曆 青花壽老騎鹿坐像

來源
1975 年 1 月 8 日購於新加坡
郭克禮珍藏

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