明晚期 磁州道教神明坐像

modeled seated with hands clasped as if to hold a tablet, wearing layered official's robes, the figure covered with a finely crackled yellowish-ivory glaze with the outer robe of marbleware

現藏者父親購於1960年代，後家族傳承

A similar cizhou-type seated figure, preserved in the British Museum, depicts the deity Wen Chang and is inscribed Wanli dingyou Chen Wencheng su' (Modeled by Chen Wencheng in the dingyou year of the Wanli era - AD 1597). Previously in the Eumorfopoulos Collection, this related figure is illustrated in R.L. Hobson, The George Eumorfopoulos Collection Catalogue of the Chinese, Corean and Persian Pottery and Porcelain, vol. 4, fig. D 346 and exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1910, Catalogue, K 37, pl. XLII.