EditorialMantle Clock Supported by a Hotei ('Laughing Buddha'), Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 1773, soft paste porcelain; enamel, brass, steel, glass, bronze, gold, porcelain, A white porcelain figure of Budai on a gilt bronze four legged b...
EditorialFigure of a standing Budai, Statue of metal (bronze?) In the shape of a standing Budai (Hotei) on a rock. Marked on the bottom with an unidentified character., anonymous, Japan, 1500 - 1999, Edo-period (1600-1868), metal, h 14 cm ? w 6.5 cm ? d 5.5 cm.
EditorialVase with a continuous landscape with figures and molded dragons and shishi, Large porcelain vase with a slightly convex body, long, trumpet-shaped neck and folded, lobed edge. Painted on the glaze in blue, red, green, yellow, eggplant, black and gold....
EditorialSaucer-dish with Budai and two servants, Porcelain dish with lobed edge, painted in underglaze blue. On the shelf a sitting Budai or Putai with a gourd jug and a shoe in the foreground. Behind him two servants. The wall is modeled in twisted sections w...
EditorialSaucer-dish with Budai and two servants, Porcelain dish with lobed edge, painted in underglaze blue. On the shelf a sitting Budai or Putai with a gourd jug and a shoe in the foreground. Behind him two servants. The wall is modeled in twisted sections w...
EditorialSaucer-dish with Budai and two servants, Porcelain dish with lobed edge, painted in underglaze blue. On the shelf a sitting Budai or Putai with a gourd jug and a shoe in the foreground. Behind him two servants. The wall is modeled in twisted sections w...
EditorialVase with a continuous landscape with figures and molded dragons and shishi, Large porcelain vase with a slightly convex body, long, trumpet-shaped neck and folded, lobed edge. Painted on the glaze in blue, red, green, yellow, eggplant, black and gold....
EditorialSaucer-dish with Budai and two servants, Porcelain dish with lobed edge, painted in underglaze blue. On the shelf a sitting Budai or Putai with a gourd jug and a shoe in the foreground. Behind him two servants. The wall is modeled in twisted sections w...
EditorialFigure of a seated monk, Porcelain statue covered with a translucent white glaze. Seated, smiling monk (Budai?) With a pearl in his hand and bare chest and belly. On the back an engraved and gilt unidentified character. Blanc de Chine., anonymous, Chin...
EditorialBudai, Image of a sitting fat man with a beard, one hand on the raised knee, the mantle has sunk so that the belly and shoulders are bared. The rear is only roughly machined. (crack in belly, nose worn)., anonymous, China, c. 1600 - c. 1699, ivory, h 5...
EditorialFigure of Budai or Hotei with Jar, c. 1735- 1740. Chantilly Porcelain Factory (French). Soft-paste porcelainwith enamel decoration; overall: 17.2 cm (6 3/4 in.).
EditorialThe Buddhist Disciple Phra Sankachai, ca. late 17th century, Thailand, Bronze with traces of gilt; eyes inlaid with shell and garnet, H. 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm), W. 15 1/2 in. (39.4 cm); D. 11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm), Sculpture, This is a much favored depiction...
EditorialThe Buddhist Disciple Phra Sankachai, ca. late 17th century, Thailand, Bronze with traces of gilt; eyes inlaid with shell and garnet, H. 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm), W. 15 1/2 in. (39.4 cm); D. 11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm), Sculpture, This is a much favored depiction...
EditorialStoneware figure of Budai ("Laughing Buddha"), Chinese, Ming dynasty, 1486. The Buddha is glazed in the sanca (three colours) palette developed in the Tang dynasty (618-906) and which reappeared in the Ming period (1368-1644). The fat, smiling monk Bud...