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A BRONZE FIGURE OF A LUOHAN ON THREE BRONZE FIGURES AN UNUSUAL GILT AND COLD-PAINTED
AN ELEPHANT 17th century BRONZE FIGURE OF A LUOHAN
17th/18th century The first female Immortal dressed in elegant 17th century
The figure, possibly representing Kalika, flowing robes and billowing scarf, holding Cast seated with the left hand resting on
seated cross legged, studying an open scroll aloft a flower spray in her left hand, the the knee and right hand raised in a mudra,
held before him, the robes falling in elaborate right hand concealed beneath a voluminous the flowing robes with voluminous sleeves
pleats over the right shoulder, the smiling sleeve to the rear, with remnants of gilt and chased floral hems, wearing a beaded
face framed with tightly-curled beard and lacquering, 16cm (6 1/4in); the second a necklace falling to the chest, with a twin-
eyebrows, the recumbent elephant adorned parcel-gilt figure of a scholar, wearing a tasselled pendant to the reverse, the
with jewelled trappings, the head turned to double belted robe and scholar’s hat, holding underside with a two-character inscription
its left, the patina of rich brown hue. a tablet in his right hand, 15cm (5 7/8in) reading Kun Jiu and an additional character
17.2cm (7in) high. high, wood stand; and a figure of a lady in possibly reading she. 8.5cm (3 3/8in) high.
long flowing robes adorned with lotus scrolls
£800 - 1,200 in a dancing posture with raised right arm £1,000 - 1,500
CNY7,200 - 11,000 holding a vessel. 19cm (7 1/2in) high. (4). CNY9,100 - 14,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at £1,200 - 1,500 Please note this Lot is to be sold at
No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 CNY11,000 - 14,000 No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

十七/十八世紀 銅騎象羅漢 Please note this Lot is to be sold at 十七世紀 銅鎏金彩繪羅漢像
No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 「九崑」刻款

十七世紀 銅製人像 一組三件

Compare the dignitary (left) with a related
figure of an official, Ming dynasty, illustrated
by M.Maucuer, Bronzes de la Chine impériale
des Song aux Qing, Paris, 2013, no.113.
See also a related bronze figure of an official,
late Ming/early Qing dynasty, which was
sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Later Chinese
Bronzes from the Collection of Ulrich
Hausmann, 8 October 2014, lot 3367.

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
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