Chinese Song Terracotta Budai Brick

SONG DYNASTY, 960-1279 A.D. OR LATER

8 in. (1.6 kg, 20.5 cm).

With a high-relief figure of a robed male monk, with painted detailing. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Ex Hong Kong collection, 1980 onwards.

Literature

Cf. for Budai statues of Song Period Qing, C., ‘In Indigenizing Deities: The Budai Maitreya and the Group of Eighteen Luohans in Niche No. 68 at Feilaifeng’ in Southeast Review of Asian Studies Volume 3, (2010), pp.22-47, figs.1,4-5-6.

Footnotes

Budai was a 10th-century monk, known for his laughing face and round stomach, and was named after the cloth sack that he carried under his arm. Buddhists believe him to be the incarnation of Maitreya, the future Buddha, who helps common people in the mortal world.

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LOT 2167