Probably 18th centurySeated on a rockwork base dressed in an elaborate robe decorated in green, yellow, blue, aubergine and, unusually, with touches of pink with dragons amid cloud scrolls, a tiger pattern cloak over one shoulder, his face and hands unglazed. 10 5/8in (27cm) high,转到 Chinese Works of Art Go
注脚:或為十八世紀 素三彩關帝坐像A much larger enameled biscuit figure of Guandi (27 inches high) dating to the Kangxi period was sold at Bonhams, New York, 19 March 2018, lot 8168. The addition of a pink enamel to parts of the decoration on the present figure places its production date to no earlier than the late Kangxi period.For two other large figures of Daoist dieties portraying the civilian and military gods of wealth from the collection of John D. Rockefeller Jr., and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, see Suzanne G Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, col. pl. 33 , and p. 228, no. 222 respectively.Another famille verte figure seated on a raised dais dated to the nineteenth century was sold at Christie's, New York, 6 June 2002, lot 223. See also Margaret Medley, The Chinese Potter, Oxford, 1976, p. 245, fig. 191 for a standing figure of Guandi in famille verte enamels from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.