Statuette d'immortel en ivoire sculpté Chine, Dynastie Ming, XVIIE siècle

le sage debout les mains croisées sur la poitrine, vêtu d'une longue robe, le visage aux yeux en amande et à la longue barbiche coiffé d'une calotte noire, socle en bois ; manques et restaurations

Overall wear to the figure ; a section of the veil around his shoulder is chipped and missing (on 5 cm). There is a chip to his left hand with the thumb missing and the attribute he was holding (probably a scroll) missing as well ; the figure has been fit at the bottom on an associated old bone section so that it can be adapted to the wood stand. There is a triangular gap with wax filling to the left of it.
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