TWO GILT-LACQUERED BRONZE DAOIST IMMORTALS

TWO GILT-LACQUERED BRONZE DAOIST IMMORTALS
China or Vietnam, ca. 17th/ 18th c.
H. 21/21,5 cm
Each seated in vajrasana, their hands showing various gestures, wearing underskirt secured around the middle with a ribbon, mantle covering both shoulders and falling in pleats over their legs, their faces displaying a serene expression with slit eyes below arched eyebrows, their hair combed backwards and the heads topped with elaborate crowns.
From an old German private collection (a commercial agent in Asia), collected in the 1970s and 80s
Traces of age, partly shlightly chippped
Zwei Bronzen mit Darstellungen von Unsterblichen und goldfarbener Lackfassung
China oder Vietnam, ca. 17./ 18. Jh.
H. 21/21,5 cm
Aus einer alten deutschen Privatsammlung (Handelsvertreter in Asien), in den 1970er und 80er Jahren gesammelt
Altersspuren, partiell minim. best.