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9/2/2020 Important Chinese Art | Sotheby's

Impo rtant Chinese Art
New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 594

A GILT-BRONZE DAOIST FIGURE, TANG DYNASTY
Estimate: 15,000 - 20,000 USD

A GILT-BRONZE DAOIST FIGURE
TANG DYNASTY
唐 銅鎏金道教人物坐像

seated and supported by an arm rest encircling the front of the body, the proper right hand raised and likely once holding a tablet,
the other resting against the curved crest rail, a tall cap set over a high forehead, highly arched brows and a crisply cast nose, a
tripartite pointed beard spread over the chest, dressed in voluminous garments and a heavy outer robe falling in thick folds about
the seat, the inner garment centered by a long pendent banner-form sash protruding from the pleated hem, the back with a
circular aperture, modern wood stand, Japanese wood box (4)

Height 3⅝ in., 9.2 cm

Exhibition
Gilt Bronze Buddhas in Sui-Tang Dynasty, Kuboso Memorial Museum, Izumi, 1993, cat. no. 225.

展覽
《隋唐時代の金銅仏》，和泉市久保惣記念美術館，1993年，編號225

Catalogue Note
Compare a similar gilt-bronze seated Daoist figure, raised on a lotus pedestal, exhibited in Arts of the Sui and Tang
Dynasties, Osaka Municipal Museum, Osaka, 1975, cat. no. 3-74.

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