Den daoistiske digniteten avbildad sittandes klädd i löst sittande rock, där rustningen skymtar fram under, under hans fötter skymtar en tigerfäll. Höjd 22 cm. Höjd med medföljande träställ 26 cm.
Delvis polerad vid skuldran.
Proveniens
The Collection of G. B. Sabelström (1888–1944). Sabelström worked for the Indian Brewery/United Breweries and lived in Shanghai from the 1920s up until his death in 1944. He was an important art collector and a member of The Royal Asiatic Society in Shanghai that was closely related to the Shanghai Art Museum. As he passed without heirs, he left his collection to Erik Dahl (1896-1979), a Swedish agent for the Swedish paper industry that came to be stationed in Shanghai and Kobe from the 1920s and onwards. Erik Dahl returned to Sweden by the Trans-Siberian Railway and the collection was sent by sea to Sweden after World War II. Thence by descent.
To see other lots sold from this collection, se Bukowskis Sale 641, lot no 779-785.
Utställningar
Compare with a similar figure sold at Christies, lot no 741, 19 March 2009 | Live auction 2269. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art Including Jades from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Övrig information
Guandi (162-220), also known as Guan Yu, originally was a heroic general of the Period of Three Kingdoms. Over the centuries, Guan Yu's achievements have been largely elaborated. Guan Yu has become the incarnation of the strength to impel, inspire and motivate, interpreted as the God of Wealth, the God of War and the Protector God of Temples. See P. Duara, 'Superscribing Symbols: The Myth of Guandi, Chinese God of War', The Journal of Asian Studies, 1988, vol.47, pp.778-795.
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