Finely and powerfully modeled and of unusual larger size. Posed seated upon a throne and wearing a long robe decorated with a dragon. Zhenwu was a highranking Daoist warrior deity of the North, who had control over water. He was revered as a Guardian of the Ming dynasty.
Height 12 ⅞ inches (32.7 cm.)
A similar large sized figure of Zhenwu from the collection of C.T. Loo was exhibited in An Exhibition of Blue-Decorated Porcelain of the Ming Dynasty, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949, cat. No. 126
Another was formerly in the Falk Collection.
