Page 78 - Chinese Art Auction April 25, 2020 2020 Galerie Zacke

77 AucTION ResulT
A lARge ANd heAVIly cAsT bRONZe cOMPARIsON
FIguRe OF budAI, QINg dyNAsTy Compare with a slightly smaller, but gilt
bronze figure of Budai, sold at Christie’s
China, 1644-1912. The Laughing Buddha characteristically depicted Hong Kong in Important Chinese
seated on his sack with strings of cash finely incised around the legs Ceramics and Works of Art on 29 May
and shoulders, his beard and chest hair also incised, wearing a long 2019, lot 3181, for HKD $625,000.
flowing robe opening at the chest to reveal his outsized belly.

Provenance: From the collection of Georg Weifert (1850-1937). Thence 大型青銅布袋坐像，清代
by descent in the same family. Weifert was a Serbo-Austrian industrialist 中國，1644-1912。笑佛的典型特徵是坐在他的麻袋上，袒胸露腹，塑造了一個笑口
and the first governor of the Federal Bank of the Kingdom of Serbia, 常開的未來佛形象。
Croatia and Slovenia. 來源：Georg Weifert (1850-1937)收藏，同一家族保存至今 。Weifert曾爲塞爾維
condition: Good condition with old wear, traces of use and casting 亞中央銀行大班以及塞爾維亞、克羅地亞與斯洛文尼亞聯邦銀行大班。
flaws. A pole or stick previously held in one hand is missing. Fine dark 品相：品相良好，老磨損，使用痕跡和鑄造缺陷。以前一隻手握住棍棒缺失。細膩深
patina. Minimal scattered nicks and dents. 色包漿。輕微刻痕和凹痕。
重量：14.7 公斤
尺寸：寬40 厘米
Weight: 14.7 kg 拍賣結果比較：一件相似但小些且鎏金的布袋和尚2019年5月29日于香港佳士得《重
Dimensions: Width 40 cm 要中國陶瓷和工藝品》拍號3181，成交價HKD $625,000.
Cast on the underside with a four-character seal mark reading Shanying
zhizao. estimate euR 2.000,-
Starting price EUr 1.000,-

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