A large bronze Laozi and buffalo incense burner and cover, Qing dynasty (1644-1912).
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With mark on the shoulder. Cast figure with a detachable cover, sturdily cast in the form of the sage seated with the right hand resting on the right knee, the expression depicted sombre and meditative, dressed in long loose robes in folds around the exposed shoe, the mouth and back pierced through with apertures, fitted to the back of the hollow buffalo with a pin, the beast depicted strenuously moving forward, the head detailed with a well pronounced snout below a tuft of hair flanked by a pair of long curved striated horns. Height 44 cm.
Wear.
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Depictions of Laozi riding an ox are numerous, as according to legend he was riding an ox on his way to the West, when he was asked by the keeper of the Hangu Mountain pass to write down his teachings.