AN IMPRESSIVE IVORY-GLAZED FIGURE OF DAMO (BODHIDHARMA)
AN IMPRESSIVE IVORY-GLAZED FIGURE OF DAMO (BODHIDHARMA)Estimate $7,000 – $10,000
- Lot Sold $9,200 (Hammer Price)
- $11,040 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
seated wearing a long robe draped over his left shoulder, leaving the chest bare and falling in draped folds over the rockwork base, his head with well defined features and downcast gaze with curly brows and beard, holding a fan centred with a figure of Amitabha Buddha in his right hand, the ivory glaze of even tone, the reverse with the mark reading He Chao enclosed in a double gourd
44CM
PROVENANCE
Mr John Weller
The Connoisseur's Collection, Sotheby's Australia, 27 May 2008, lot 69
Private Collection, Melbourne
The mark is that of a potter from the He family of De Hua potters