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A ‘ROSE-VERTE’ BISCUIT FIGURE OF GUANDI A much larger enameled biscuit figure of Guandi (27 inches high)
Probably 18th Century dating to the Kangxi period was sold at Bonhams, New York, 19
Seated on a rockwork base dressed in an elaborate robe decorated March 2018, lot 8168. The addition of a pink enamel to parts of the
in green, yellow, blue, aubergine and, unusually, with touches of decoration on the present figure places its production date to no
pink with dragons amid cloud scrolls, a tiger pattern cloak over one earlier than the late Kangxi period.
shoulder, his face and hands unglazed.
10 5/8in (27cm) high For two other large figures of Daoist dieties portraying the civilian
and military gods of wealth from the collection of John D. Rockefeller
$8,000 - 12,000 Jr., and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, see Suzanne G
Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, col.
或為十八世紀 素三彩關帝坐像 pl. 33 , and p. 228, no. 222 respectively.

Another famille verte figure seated on a raised dais dated to the
nineteenth century was sold at Christie’s, New York, 6 June 2002, lot
223. See also Margaret Medley, The Chinese Potter, Oxford, 1976, p.
245, fig. 191 for a standing figure of Guandi in famille verte enamels
from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

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