With a broadly smiling face and wearing a crown, dressed in a dress revealing a very prominent belly, the left leg raised, the hand placed on the knee holding a prayer beads. Bronze with small traces of gilding (under the right nipple). Chinese art. Late Ming period. Height : 30 cm. Provenance : Acquired in China by Mr Edouard Closson, a Belgian engineer, between 1898 and 1900, then transmitted by descent.