Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1662-1722
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted,
Subjects:bamboo musician deity
Dimensions:Height: 13.50 centimetres Weight: 0.10 kilograms
Description:
This moulded porcelain figure depicts a man with a long beard, wearing a black scholar’s hat and dressed in an aubergine over–robe, and green under robe with black shoes. He is standing on a textile covered plinth and holds a drum in his right hand. The figure may be identified as Zhang Guolao, one of the Eight Daoist Immortals. He is depicted as a musician who uses two crutch shaped drum-sticks to beat a yu gu [cylindrical bamboo fish drum]. Originally this would have been one of a set of eight figures.
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![图片[1]-figure BM-Franks.502.+-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00010231_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-figure BM-Franks.502.+-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00355993_001.jpg)
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Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted,
Subjects:bamboo musician deity
Dimensions:Height: 13.50 centimetres Weight: 0.10 kilograms
Description:
This moulded porcelain figure depicts a man with a long beard, wearing a black scholar’s hat and dressed in an aubergine over–robe, and green under robe with black shoes. He is standing on a textile covered plinth and holds a drum in his right hand. The figure may be identified as Zhang Guolao, one of the Eight Daoist Immortals. He is depicted as a musician who uses two crutch shaped drum-sticks to beat a yu gu [cylindrical bamboo fish drum]. Originally this would have been one of a set of eight figures.
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