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A BLUE AND WHITE FIGURE OF garment, the seat painted with a scene of ! ame ׼ຬ዇ ڡڀॆ؛Ѭ྅
ZHENWU scrolls amidst mountains, the base unglazed, an
aperture to the base and to the back
MING DYNASTY, WANLI PERIOD
Height 12⅞ in., 32.7 cm
seated on an integrally molded two-part seat Figures of deities gained popularity from the
with the feet shoulder-width apart and the hands middle of the Ming dynasty, and images such as
resting on the knees, the face directed forward the present lot were probably made for domestic
with a calm expression and framed by long locks, shrines. A related blue and white # gure of a
clad in a ! oral mantle draped over a long robe seated Daoist deity sold in these rooms, 17th-18th
painted in underglaze blue with clouds at the September 2013, lot 303; another sold at
shoulders and arms and centered with a roundel Christie’s London, 15th June 1999, lot 62.
over the deity’s rotund belly illustrating a dragon
pursuing a ‘! aming pearl’, the motif repeated $ 15,000-25,000
in a band spanning the lower section of the

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