Late Ming DynastyThe impressive figure well cast, seated with hands clasped holding a hu tablet before his chest, the long robes draped in elegant folds and decorated with striding dragons at the hems, the bearded face with a pensive expression flanked by pendulous ears and long strands of black hair, the tall headdress decorated with a three-peaked mountain emerging from crashing waves and flanked by the sun and the moon characters issuing from wispy clouds, stand. 58cm (22 7/8in) high. (2).