Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1662-1722
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted,
Subjects:musician deity
Dimensions:Height: 14 centimetres Weight: 0.10 kilograms
Description:
This moulded porcelain figure depicts a man with a long black beard, wearing a black scholar’s hat and dressed in an amber-yellow robe with black shoes. He is standing on a textile covered plinth and holds a pair of castanets in his right hand. The figure may be identified as Cao Guojiu, one of the Eight Daoist Immortals. He is depicted as a musician who plays castanets. Originally this would have been one of a set of eight figures.
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![图片[1]-figure BM-Franks.503.+-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00010232_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-figure BM-Franks.503.+-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00355993_001.jpg)
Comments:
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted,
Subjects:musician deity
Dimensions:Height: 14 centimetres Weight: 0.10 kilograms
Description:
This moulded porcelain figure depicts a man with a long black beard, wearing a black scholar’s hat and dressed in an amber-yellow robe with black shoes. He is standing on a textile covered plinth and holds a pair of castanets in his right hand. The figure may be identified as Cao Guojiu, one of the Eight Daoist Immortals. He is depicted as a musician who plays castanets. Originally this would have been one of a set of eight figures.
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