A RARE PARCEL-GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF CAI GUOJIU Ming Dynasty The bearded Daoist Immortal standing slightly turning to the right, holding in front castanets, smiling and wearing a tall scholar's hat with its pair of ribbons resting on his shoulders, the long flowing robes adorned at the hems with lingzhi shaped scrolls, wood stand. 27cm (10 5/8in) high. (2). Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 明 局部鎏金銅曹國舅像 Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2013, no.8. 展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2013年，編號8 Cao Guojiu is one of the Eight Immortals and was supposedly a Song dynasty official who is usually depicted wearing official's dress and holding castanets. He is the patron of actors. See a related set of eight bronze Immortals, including Cai Guojiu, Ming dynasty, 17th century, illustrated in Bronzes de la Chine imperiale des Song aux Qing, Paris, 2013, no.106. See also a similar bronze figure of Cao Guojiu, Ming dynasty, illustrated in China's Renaissance in Bronze: The Robert H.Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes 1100-1900, Phoenix, 1994, no.51. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com