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The Buddhist monk crouching with his hands clasped beneath the layered robes resting on one upraised knee, his face lowered in contemplative expression, the robes chased with floral sprays including lotus, peony, chrysanthemum, prunus and camellia, the under-robes decorated with ribboned emblems of musical stone, fish-drum, scrolls and book, the underside incised 'da Qing Qianlong nian zhi Rehe xingguan chenshenchu' (made during the Qianlong era of the great Qing, for display in the gallery at the Summer Palace at Rehe).
14.8cm (5⅞in) high.
Footnotes
Provenance: an English private collection
Rehe is the traditional name of Chengde, Hebei Province, named after the local Rehe river (so called 'hot river' as the river water did not freeze in the winter). In 1703 the Kangxi emperor chose Chengde as the location for his Summer residence, known as Bishu Shanzhuang (The Mountain Resort), which was subsequently used by the Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors to avoid the summer heat of Beijing. Therefore, the inscription on the base of this figure of Damo connects it to the Imperial Chan Buddhist ritual within the Mountain Resort during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor.
Compare a similar gilt-copper figure of Damo sold in these rooms on 6 November 2008, lot 347 and another sold at Christie's New York, 24 March 2004, lot 86.