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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.
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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