A CHINESE POLISHED-BRONZE FIGURE OF LI BAI

A CHINESE POLISHED-BRONZE FIGURE OF LI BAI
QING DYNASTY

The drunken poet wears flowing robes and reclines, resting his left arm on an overturned wine barrel, together with a high wood stand carved with cloud scrolls, 1kg, 22cm long. (2)

Provenance: from the collection of Norman Blount, 1875-1930. Norman Blount was a jute broker, as well as the joint secretary (with the artist Abanindranath Tagore) of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, which was founded in 1907 in Calcutta, with Lord Kitchener the Society’s President.

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來源：諾曼·布朗特（1875-1930）收藏。諾曼布朗特曾是一個黃麻經銷商，與藝術家泰戈爾一起擔任了印度東方藝術協會的聯合秘書（1907年於加爾各答成立），而霍雷肖•赫伯特•基奇納元帥(1850-1916)為協會主席。