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11 ? in. (28.6 cm.) high
Vilhelm Meyer (1878-1935) Collection, Denmark.Private collection, Denmark.
It is very rare to find a figure of Budai standing on his treasure sack produced at the Dehua kilns. Dehua standing figures aremore commonly found in the form of the Buddha, the monk Damo, or Guanyin, while figures of Budai are more typically depicted in a seated position. The present figure can be closely compared to other standing figures of the seventeenth century in the modeling of the folds of the robe, the delicacy of the fingers (in this instance, holding a peach) and the rounded form of the base, often modeled as waves but in this instance formed as the treasure sack, an attribute of Budai.A Dehua standing Budai figure from the Koger Collection in The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Florida, wasincluded in the China Institute exhibition, Blanc de Chine: Divine Images in Porcelain, and illustrated by J. Ayers in the catalogue, New York, 2002, p. 88, no. 39. Another example, dated early to mid-seventeenth century, but slightly smaller than the present figure, is illustrated by R. Blumenfield, Blanc de Chine: The Great Porcelain of Dehua, Berkeley/Toronto, 2002, p. 72, fig. C.Another very unusual figure of a standing Budai, modeled with his arms raised above his head and standing on what appears to be a cloud-form base, dated 1700-1750, is illustrated by P. J. Donnelly, Blanc de Chine: The Porcelain of Tehua in Fukien, New York/Washington, p. 161 and pl. 88C.A seated figure of Budai, with similar expression and open robe, dated to the seventeenth century, is illustrated by M. Medley, The World’s Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 6, The Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, Tokyo/New York/San Francisco, 1982, no. 201, ref. 497.