AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF LAOJUN TANG DYNASTY
finely cast seated cross-legged with a tripod armrest encircling the front half of the torso, wearing a small scholar's cap, the face with a sincere expression and a pointed beard, the body clothed in an interior garment tied at the chest, with an outer robe open and hanging in creased folds, the hands atop the armrest and the proper right hand holding a fan, all supported on an integral waisted octagonal base
Height 3 3/4 in., 9.7 cm
Provenance:
Nagatani Inc., Chicago, 2nd November 1953.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
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finely cast seated cross-legged with a tripod armrest encircling the front half of the torso, wearing a small scholar's cap, the face with a sincere expression and a pointed beard, the body clothed in an interior garment tied at the chest, with an outer robe open and hanging in creased folds, the hands atop the armrest and the proper right hand holding a fan, all supported on an integral waisted octagonal base
Height 3 3/4 in., 9.7 cm
Provenance:
Nagatani Inc., Chicago, 2nd November 1953.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
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