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A RARE PARCEL-GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF CAI GUOJIU
Ming Dynasty
The bearded Daoist Immortal standing slightly turning to the right,
holding in front castanets, smiling and wearing a tall scholar’s hat with
its pair of ribbons resting on his shoulders, the long flowing robes
adorned at the hems with lingzhi shaped scrolls, wood stand.
27cm (10 5/8in) high. (2).
£1,000 - 1,500
CNY9,100 - 14,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

明 局部鎏金銅曹國舅像

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter
Exhibition, London, 2013, no.8.

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2013年，
編號8

Cao Guojiu is one of the Eight Immortals and was supposedly a Song
dynasty official who is usually depicted wearing official’s dress and
holding castanets. He is the patron of actors. See a related set of eight
bronze Immortals, including Cai Guojiu, Ming dynasty, 17th century,
illustrated in Bronzes de la Chine imperiale des Song aux Qing, Paris,
2013, no.106. See also a similar bronze figure of Cao Guojiu, Ming
dynasty, illustrated in China’s Renaissance in Bronze: The Robert
H.Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes 1100-1900, Phoenix,
1994, no.51.

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A BRONZE FIGURE OF GUANDI
Late Ming Dynasty
The God of War cast standing upright with his right hand holding his
official belt, his left hand hidden within his long voluminous sleeve, the
face with stern expression beneath a scholar’s cloth cap, pierced with 600
apertures for the insertion of hair. 21.5cm (8 1/2in) high.
£500 - 800
CNY4,500 - 7,200
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

明晚期 銅關帝立像
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TWO BRONZE FIGURES OF IMMORTALS
Ming Dynasty
The first probably representing Lü Dongbin, wearing a billowing belted
tunic and tabbed hat, the hands clasped and concealed beneath
voluminous sleeves, a sword and hollowed gourd flask slung across
his back, 13.5cm (5 1/4in) high; the second similarly robed, the right
hand raised and face turned to the left with smiling expression, some
gilt traces remaining, 18cm (7 1/8in) high, fitted stands. (4).
£800 - 1,200
CNY7,200 - 11,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

明 道教人物銅像 一組兩件

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter
Exhibition, London, 2013, no.4 (the bronze figure of Lu Dongbin)

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2013年，
編號4（圖左呂洞賓像）

See a very similar bronze figure of Lü Dongbin, late Ming dynasty,
which was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Later Chinese Bronzes from
the Collection of Ulrich Hausmann, 8 October 2014, lot 3341.

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