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A BLANC-DE-CHINE FIGURE OF BUDAI
17th century

A Life in Ceramics: The Peter and Mary White Collection of Chinese Art
31 October – 10 November 2025, 10:00 GMT
Online, London, New Bond Street

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A BLANC-DE-CHINE FIGURE OF BUDAI

17th century
The deity with jovial expression between long pendulous ears, clad in long flowing robes cascading over his large reclining body resting atop a large sack, his left hand clasping rosary beads, covered in a creamy-white glaze. 11cm (4 1/4in) high.

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Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

十七世紀 德化窯白瓷布袋像

Provenance: acquired from Simon Spero Antiques, London, on 4 June 2009 (collector's notes)

Published and Illustrated: M.White, People at the Whites' House: Ceramics from the Mary and Peter White Collection, vol.5, n.p., 2024, p.119

來源：獲得於倫敦古董商Simon Spero Antiques，2009年6月4日（藏家筆記）

著錄： M.White，《People at the Whites' House: Ceramics from the Mary and Peter White Collection》，第五冊，無出版地，2024年，第119頁

Budai (布袋), also known as the 'Laughing Buddha', was in fact the Chinese monk Qieci (契此), who lived in the late Tang dynasty and Five Dynasties period (10th century). As seen in the present lot, he is commonly represented as a plump, smiling figure embodying happiness, contentment, generosity, and good fortune. In the Chinese Buddhist tradition, he is also recognised as an incarnation of Maitreya, the future Buddha.

See two related blanc-de-Chine figures of Budai, Ming dynasty and Qing Dynasty respectively, illustrated in Dehua wares Collected by the Palace Museum II (故宫博物院藏德化窑瓷器：下), Beijing, 2016, pp.158-159, nos.54-55.

A similar blanc-de-Chine figure of Budai, late 17th/18th century, which was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 3071.

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