Asian Art II - Part One - 24 May 2023
A CHINESE SOAPSTONE CARVING OF GUANDILATE
A CHINESE SOAPSTONE CARVING OF GUANDI
LATE QING DYNASTY
The God of War depicted in a terracotta coloured stone, he reads from a book in his left hand, and is raised on a dark brown soapstone base, 22cm.
Provenance: from an English private collection, West Yorkshire, formed in the 1970s and 1980s.