Étiquettes
Blanc de chine figure of the seated Damo, Dehua, He Chaozong impressed mark, 17th – 18th century. Estimate: € 25,000 – € 30,000. Sold for € 856,000. Photo Lempertz
The figure of Bodhidharma sitting on a holey rock base with a prepared leg, holding a scroll in his left hand is wrapped in a richly pleated robe that covered his bald head, and wearing his typical bushy beard and eyebrows with open eyes without lids. A single shoe stands on an elevated rock. All covered with bluish white glaze. Small chips and cracks fire. H 34.6 cm
Provenance: Purchased from John Sparks Ltd., London, 1985
Collection Annelotte Elbrecht (1924-2013)
Exhibitions: Chinese ceramics. Masterpieces from Private Collections, Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne, May 7 bis August 7, 1988
Literature: See, very similar Damo in Shanxi Museum, Taiyuan
Cf .: Geng Dong Sheng, Ming Qing Dehua Baici (Ming and Qing White Wares from Dehua), Guangxi Meishu 2014, fig. 33
Lempertz. 05.12.2014, 14:00 Asian Art | Cologne