Lot 73: A FAMILLE-VERTE BISCUIT FIGURE OF A MALE IMMORTAL AND CHILD Qing Dynasty

A FAMILLE-VERTE BISCUIT FIGURE OF A MALE IMMORTAL AND CHILD

Qing Dynasty

The standing enameled biscuit figure wearing elegant, green-ground floral robes and holding a child in his folded right arm, his left hand held at his waist, all supported on waisted rectangular base with shaped panels on a cell ground to the sides, and two small figures at the feet of the immortal.


12 1/2in (31.8cm) high, overall

Large figure: Various losses and repairs to extremities, including the hat, wings, and tiara; (real) left sleeve and hand with losses, (real) right hand with restored fingers; repair to the tray supporting the small child; small child with extremity repairs and missing right hand; re-stuck supporting tenon to underside of figure; other minor imperfections.


Two small standing figures: One with head with restoration and re-stuck, both figures with glaze polish at one side and tenons to underside re-stuck. One possibly a replacement.


Base: Some kiln firing cracks to the underside that extend as fine cracks

up the sides to the supporting shelf.

清康熙 素三彩福星童子像



Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價




Provenance:

Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1924

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1924-present




來源：

Mary Clark Thompson 遺贈，1924年

大都會藝術博物館，1924 年迄今



The dignitary depicted in the group with boys possibly represents the God of Fortune (福星 Fuxing). He is often seen with a boy, or a scroll, sometimes surrounded by children such as the present lot. See a related
famille-verte model of the God of Wealth, Kangxi period, illustrated by S. G. Valenstein in
A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, London, 1989, pl.222. See also a similar
famille-verte figure, Kangxi period, from the Salting Collection, illustrated by W. Gulland,
Chinese Porcelain, vol. II, London, 1911, no.520.

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