Los Nr. 216 - Auction 57

Los Nr. 216

Asian Art
A BRONZE AND CLOISONNÉ ENAMELS FIGURE OF ZHANG GUOLAO WITH HIS DONKEY Japan, 19th century

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Beschreibung

A BRONZE AND CLOISONNÉ ENAMELS FIGURE OF ZHANG GUOLAO WITH HIS DONKEY
Japan, 19th century





40 cm high

The sculpture depicting a bearded man on a donkey, both with the head turning left, the figure with a large domed hat on his head and a ruyi sceptre in his left hand, the dress and the harness with a polychrome enamels cloisonné decoration and some inlaid red glass small spheres.

Provenance: the collection of a Swiss-Neapolitan noble family, acquired in early ‘30s of the 20th century.
One of the Daoist Eight Immortals (Baxian), Zhang Guolao is usually depicted together with a donkey that could cover a thousand miles in a day; when it doesn’t need, the animal go into a small container that the deity brings always with him.
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