A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF THE DAOIST ‘GODDESS OF THE MORNING CLOUDS’, BIXIA YUANJUN

Description:

China, late Ming dynasty
H. 31,5 cm
Seated in European fashion with both her hands raised in front of her chest holding a tablet, wearing various garments including a wide-sleeved mantle, its border incised with a floral muster, her face displaying a serene expression with open eyes below arched eyebrows running into the nose-bridge, smiling lips, her elongated earlobes with ear-discs, her hairdo combed in a chignon decorated to the front with a bird showing wide-spread wings, traces of pigment.
Old German private collection, assembled before 1990
Very slightly chipped, minor wear