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A FAMILLE VERTE BISCUIT FIGURE OF A DAOIST                          John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874-1960) Collection.
IMMORTAL                                                            The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1960.

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)                                           清康熙 五彩加金彩道教人物坐像及寶座

The immortal is shown seated holding a ruyi scepter, and wearing a  來源
yellow-glazed robe decorated with scrolling clouds and fve-clawed   小約翰.戴維森. 洛克菲勒(1874-1960)珍藏。
dragons chasing faming pearls, worn over a green-glazed robe        紐約大都會藝術博物館,入藏於1960年。
decorated with cranes and peaches. Together with a famille verte
biscuit-glazed model of a throne, Kangxi period (1662-1722),
raised on a hexagonal pedestal decorated on the front with diaper
pattern and on the back with a qilin in a garden.
Figure 15Ω in. (39.3 cm.) high, stand 10¡ in. (26.2 cm.) wide (2)

$30,000-50,000

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