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Figure of Budai Heshang, the Cotton-bag Monk

about 1740
Medium/TechniquePorcelain (blanc de chine)
DimensionsHeight: 13.6 cm (5 3/8 in.)
Credit LineThe G. Ephis Collection—Museum purchase with funds donated anonymously, Charles Bain Hoyt Fund, John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund, Mary S. and Edward J. Holmes Fund, William Francis Warden Fund, Tamara Petrosian Davis Sculpture Fund, John Lowell Gardner Fund, Seth K. Sweetser Fund, H. E. Bolles Fund, and funds by exchange from the Kiyi and Edward M. Pflueger Collection-Bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and Gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger
Accession number2012.609
On View
On view
ClassificationsCeramics
Collections
InscriptionsThree paper labels, one a fragment: "Bluett / Lon[don]" "Late Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644 A.D." "Collection G. Ephis"
ProvenanceBluett and Sons (dealer), London. 2006, sold by S. Marchant and Son (dealer), London, to the G. Ephis collection (private collector), France; 2012, sold by the G. Ephis collection to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 24, 2012).