Seated Dignitary Converted to a Lamp
Chinese, figure with unglazed biscuit face and headdress, wearing long robe, seated on platform base, mounted on gilt metal three-tier oval stand, electrified, figure 9-1/4 in., with pagoda-form silk shade and carved jadeite tablet-form finial, 24 in. overall large firing hole verso, glaze fractures on sides extending towards firing hole, minor loss to molding, shade in good condition, fracture visible to one side of jadeite tablet of finial. Provenance: John Frederick and Elizabeth Maue, New York/New Jersey; By descent
Condition
large firing hole verso, glaze fractures on sides extending towards firing hole, minor loss to molding, shade in good condition, fracture visible to one side of jadeite tablet of finial