Lot 162
A CARVED BAMBOO STANDING FIGURE OF LIU HAI AND HIS GOLDEN TOAD 19th century
29 – 30 May 2022, 15:00 HKT
Hong Kong, Six Pacific PlaceSold for HK$40,800 inc. premium
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A CARVED BAMBOO STANDING FIGURE OF LIU HAI AND HIS GOLDEN TOAD
19th century
The Daoist Immortal carved standing, dressed in loose flowing robes cascading in voluminous folds and revealing his round belly, his right hand supporting the Three-Legged Toad and his left hand slightly raised at his chest holding a coin, his waist adorned with a belt suspending a double-gourd and overlapping leaves, the bamboo of reddish-brown colour. 30cm (11 3/4in) high.
The Daoist Immortal carved standing, dressed in loose flowing robes cascading in voluminous folds and revealing his round belly, his right hand supporting the Three-Legged Toad and his left hand slightly raised at his chest holding a coin, his waist adorned with a belt suspending a double-gourd and overlapping leaves, the bamboo of reddish-brown colour. 30cm (11 3/4in) high.
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十九世紀 竹雕劉海戲金蟾立像
Bamboo carvings of the Immortal Liu Hai and his Three-Legged Toad were popular throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the present lot appears to have been carved after earlier Ming dynasty prototypes. See a bamboo carving of Liu Hai and Toad, late Ming dynasty, illustrated by S.Kwan, Ming and Qing Bamboo, Hong Kong, 2000, pp.162-163. Later bamboo carvings of Liu Hai, Kangxi to Yongzheng periods are also illustrated in Ibid., p.293, where the author notes that 'smaller toads were common on bamboo carvings with the same subject matter during the late Kangxi and Yongzheng periods'.
此立像以圓雕手法雕刻而成，劉海長髮及肩，臉上喜笑顏開，神態悠閑，身穿闊袖袍衣，坦胸露肚，大腹便便，左手執銅錢，戲逗右手之上的三足蟾，腰下飾多層葉紋及繫一葫蘆，赤足而立。皮色粟紅，澤光瑩潤，整體刀法嫻熟，流暢自然，神情動作栩栩如生。參考一件萬曆至崇禎年間的竹根雕劉海戲蟾立像，《虛心傲節—明清竹刻史話》，香港，2000年，頁162-163。與明代造型相比，清康熙、雍正時期劉海戲蟾竹雕上的金蟾體形較小，見同上，頁293。
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