明萬曆 青花壽老騎鹿坐像10 ? in. (26.3 cm.) high, box
1975年1月8日購於新加坡郭克禮珍藏
Large blue and white figures of this type and date, depicting Shoulao seated on a deer, appear to be quite rare. One in the British Museum (Franks. 1472) is illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall in Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2002, pp. 324-325, no. 11:131, where it is dated circa. 1573-1620. The figure is raised on a separate plinth and the height overall is 43 cm. As with the present figure, Shoulao holds a ruyi sceptre but the decoration throughout differs from that of the present figure, the robes being decorated with crane roundels. Another figure of Shoulao, very similar and also dated to the Wanli period but decorated in wucai, is illustrated in Min Chiu Society, Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition: Selected Treasures of Chinese Art, 1990, no. 149.