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拍品专文
Compare with a similar Cizhou figure of Zhenwu sold in our New York rooms, 18 September 2003, lot 289. A very similar figure to the one sold in New York was unearthed in Miyun Country, Beijing which is now in the Beijing Cultural Relics Research Institute (see Urban Life in the Song, Yuan & Ming, Singapore, 1994, p. 70).
Zhenwu, The Supreme Emperor of the Dark Heaven, is the Daoist deity of the North. The tortoise and the snake, motifs associated with the north and winter, are frequently depicted with him.
Zhenwu, The Supreme Emperor of the Dark Heaven, is the Daoist deity of the North. The tortoise and the snake, motifs associated with the north and winter, are frequently depicted with him.