A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF A DIGNITARY LATE MING / EARLY QING DYNASTY

cast as a dignitary standing on a four-footed plinth while holding a scroll in his left hand, dressed in loose robes and adorned with a headdress, a miniature hollowed-out double-gourd vessel set in front of the figure on the plinth

there is general surface wear and minor rubbing to the gilding. The figure may have been reattached to the separately cast base in antiquity.
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A similar parcel-gilt figure, but of an Immortal, is illustrated by Paul Moss and Gerard Hawthorn, The Second Bronze Age. Later Chinese Metalwork. Sydney Moss Ltd., London, 1991, cat. no. 11.