Chinese sage: Lu Dongbin

Bristol

ca. 1750 · Soft-paste porcelain · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

This rare British porcelain figure is a close copy of a Chinese original depicting Lu Dongbin, an 8th-century scholar and one of the Eight Daoist Immortals. White porcelain figures from China were greatly admired and imitated in Europe. This figure could have been displayed on a mantle or inside a china cabinet.

Artist

Bristol

Date

ca. 1750

Medium

Soft-paste porcelain

Culture

British, Bristol

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of Mrs. Constance D. Stieglitz, in memory of her husband, Marcel H. Stieglitz, 1964