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A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF LU
DONGBIN
17TH CENTURY
cast standing and leaning into a demon, just
quelled, the proper right arm with long draped
sleeve wrapped around the demon’s shoulders,
the immortal standing in heavy robes with
incised, patterned borders, bearing a small
double gourd, with the magic sword across the
back, the demon dressed in a skirt of leaves
with a beast-mask girdle over short trousers, a
larger double gourd pendant over the back, the
two figures mounted and raised on a stepped
rectangular base
Height 8⅞ in., 22.5 cm
Lu Dongbin, a beloved Daoist immortal whose
legend is based on a Tang dynasty scholar
Lu Yan, is typically depicted with his demon-
quelling magic sword and fly whisk. In popular
16th and 17th century woodblock print images
of the Eight Daoist Immortals, Lu Dongbin
is depicted with cap and long belted robes,
bearing his sword across his back, similar to the
present figure.
$ 30,000-50,000

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