A FINE AND RARE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF LAOZI

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A FINE AND RARE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF LAOZI
12TH/13TH CENTURY

The seated Daoist Immortal well cast with a meditative expression, his hair swept up in a topknot and secured in a ruyi crown, wearing long flowing robes with a ruyi sceptre gracefully poised in both hands, his elbows resting on a semi-circular support raised on a cabriole leg surmounted by a lion mask
9 in. (22.8 cm.) high, stand

拍品专文

Compare with a 15th/16th century figure of Laozi in the Chang Foundation exhibition, Buddhist Images in Gilt Metal, 1993, illustrated in the Catalogue no. 78.

(US$50,000-77,000)