TWO BLANC-DE-CHINE SEATED FIGURES OF GUANDI AND TUDI SHEN
Kangxi
The larger modelled as the Warrior God Guandi seated on a simple throne, wearing armour under his plain robe, and a ribboned Official's hat, 25.5cm (10in) high; and another smaller figure, depicting Tudi shen, the God of the Earth, seated wearing heavy looping robes and a high cap, 16.5cm (6in) high.
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Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

清康熙 德化窯白釉關帝坐像及土地神像 各一

A similar blanc-de-Chine figure of the Earth God, Ming dynasty, is illustrated in Dehua Wares Collected by the Palace Museum I, Beijing, 2016, no.60. See also another identified as the Earth God, illustrated by J.Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, Vol. I, London, 2016, nos.60 and 61, with provenance of 'almost certainly George IV and identifiable in the Royal Pavilion Inventory as 'A Sitting Joss in a chair.'

Guandi: sections of the hat restored, the largest approx 3cm long, the other hat tail with break, crack visible; minor firing imperfections, including a firing crack, the largest approx 6cm long on the back; some minor chips and nicks to the extremities, the largest approx 2mm wide; general surface wear.

Tudigong: some restoration to the hat tails and belt, visible under UV light; some firing imperfections including firing cracks, the largest approx 2.5cm long; general surface wear.