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each fi gure cast standing atop a rectangular openwork base, with hands clasped within the long voluminous sleeves of the layered robes to support an off ering, the hair swept back and drawn into two topknots, one cast on the reverse of the skirt with a fi fteen-character inscription reading Xiaochengli shan ren Cao Chenghuai Jiajing san shi liu nian zao (Made by the charitable Cao Cheng Huai of Xiaochengli in the thirty sixth year of the Jiajing reign), together with a list of donor names, traces of lacquer and gilding (2)
Height 22? in., 56.2 cm
PROVENANCE
Property of an English Private Collector. Sotheby Parke Bernet, 22nd May 1970, lot 101. Collection of C. Ruxton and Audrey B. Love. Christie’s New York, 20th October 2004, lot 310.
Compare a pair of cast-iron fi gures of luohan, dated by inscription to the 16th year of the Chenghua period (1480), sold in our London rooms, 7th November 2007, lot 261; and a large pair of cast-iron fi gures of Yan Wang, dated to the 12th year of the Zhengde period (1517), sold at Christie’s London, 4th December 1995, lot 182.
明嘉靖 鐵漆金侍女立像一對
《嘉靖三十六年造》款
銘文： 張庫 張德或 張德周 小城里善人曹成懷 嘉靖三十六年造
來源 英國私人收藏 蘇富比 Parke Bernet，1970年5月22日，編號101 C. Ruxton 及 Audrey B. Love 伉儷收藏 紐約佳士得2004年10月20日，編號310
