A rare Chinese qingbai partially glazed porcelain figure of a seated immortal

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A rare Chinese qingbai partially glazed porcelain figure of a seated immortal, Southern Song Dynasty, 13th century, the Daoist deity shown smiling and wearing a belted robe and cord-tied shoes, seated on top of a rock stool with his hair tied by the crown on top of his head, accompanied by a deer on one side, the dear and the stool glazed, the remainder of the figure left in the biscuit, 20.2cm highThis figure of a benevolently smiling Daoist sage belongs to a small group of rare Buddhist and Daoist figures made at the Jingdezhen kilns in the Song dynasty. A very similar Daoist figure also seated on top of a glazed pierced rock stool, with the body and robe of the figure left in the biscuit, was excavated from a Southern Song tomb which is dated to the 4th year of Xianxiang (1268) in Panyang county of Jiangxi province and is now in Jiangxi Provincial Museum and illustrated by Zhang Bai in Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China - 14 - Jiangxi, Beijing, 2008, no. 70. Also see a similar figure of same size sold at Christie's New York, 13 Sept 2019, Lot 1022南宋 影青瓷雕文昌帝君像 品相： the figure with on crack to the back and further firing cracks, one thumb slightly chipped, one chip to the sleevethe unglazed base with some further chips

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