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Description: | Dehua blanc de Chine figure of an Immortal, seated on a rock with legs crossed at the ankles. He wears a long, flowing robe with his belly exposed. His right hand rests on his right knee and his left arm is supported by an arm-rest with three masked bird-legs, the front leg rests on his left knee and the other two rest on the rock. He holds a ruyi sceptre in his left hand. The figure is hollow and glazed inside and out with a milk-white glaze which has a slight green tint. The legs of the arm-rest are cracked. Description Source: Legeza, I.L. 1972. Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcolm Macdonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham. London: Oxford University Press, p. 50 | Subjects: | statuette sculpture in the round statuette | Source: | Vads | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=196... | Go to resource |
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