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Lot 602*,Y

THREE LARGE BLANC-DE-CHINE FIGURES OF BUDAI
17th/18th century

13 – 20 May 2024, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £2,560 inc. premium

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THREE LARGE BLANC-DE-CHINE FIGURES OF BUDAI

17th/18th century
Each with jovial expressions and covered in creamy-white glazes, one carved seated with his detachable right hand holding a pearl and wearing a long rosary, on a oval low plinth, wood stand, 19cm (7 1/2in) high; one with the figure sprawled to the left, holding a rosary on his raised left knee, wood stand, 20cm (8in) wide; one with the figure raised on a rocky plinth, clasping a ruyi in his right hand, 19cm (7 1/2in) high. (6).

Footnotes

十七/十八世紀 德化窰布袋和尚坐像 三件

Provenance: a Swiss private collection, and thence by descent

來源:瑞士私人收藏,並由後人保存迄今

A native of Zhejiang Province, Budai (his name refers to his large sack which in Chinese is called budai 布袋) is regarded as an incarnation of Maytreya, the Buddha of the Future. See a related blanc-de-Chine figure of Budai, Qing dynasty, illustrated in Dehua Wares Collected by the Palace Museum I, Beijing, 2016, no.55.

See a related blanc-de-Chine figure of Budai, 17th century, which was sold at Bonhams London, 11 May 2017, lot 207.

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