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442 Li Tieguai, also know as ‘Iron Crutch Li’, is one of the Eight Immortals.
A gilt-splashed bronze ‘Li Tieguai’ double-gourd vase Li appears as a lame beggar supported by an iron crutch and wearing
17th/18th century a circlet and carrying a double-gourd with him. Before he attained
Sturdily cast in the form of an oblong double-gourd vessel rising from immortality, he was a wine-drinking recluse and is often depicted as
a pronounced conical foot, decorated with a rope tied in a knot at the pot-bellied or drunk and resting in a relaxed posture. Legend states
mid-section with raised bats in flight amidst clouds dividing vivid splashes that all the Eight Immortals are very fond of drinking wine and they are
of gold, the Immortal in high relief seated at leisure with legs apart, sometimes also referred to as the ‘Eight Drunken Immortals’.
wearing loose robes tied at the waist, holding a crutch and drinking wine
from an ewer, his stern expression framed by defined beard and bald
head wearing a circlet, the base cast with a two-character apocryphal
zhuanshu seal mark.
40.2cm high.
HK$150,000 - 250,000
US$19,000 - 32,000

清十七/十八世紀 銅灑金李鐵拐葫蘆式瓶 陰刻「宣德」篆文方印

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