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138 AN INSCRIBED HUANGHUASHI STELE OF A DAOIST FIGURE
SUI DYNASTY, DATED 10TH YEAR OF THE KAIHUANG PERIOD, CORRESPONDING TO 590
隋開皇十年（590年） 黃花石雕天尊王像

carved seated cross-legged with a tripod armrest encircling the front half of the torso, wearing a small scholar’s cap, the face
with a pointed beard and eyes closed in meditation, the stocky body clothed in an interior garment crossed over the chest,
with an outer robe open and hanging in creased folds, the hands atop the armrest and the proper right hand holding a small
vessel, all supported on a rectangular base, inscribed to the front and one side, dated tenth year of the Kaihuang period,
corresponding to 590

Height 7⅜ in., 18.7 cm
$ 80,000-120,000

PROVENANCE 銘文：
Tonying & Company, Inc, New York, 15th February 1946. 開皇十年歲次庚戌九月乙酉朔九日道民李神茂敬造天尊王像
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). 一區 願使七世而生父母拔離三詮 又願子孫昌熾 普成至道

來源
通運公司，紐約，1946年2月15日
史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

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