KANGXI PORCELAIN

Modelled seated on a rectangular flat base with chamfered corners, dressed in a yellow tunic outlined in black at the bottom hem and tied with moulded tassels in black and green hanging down from underneath the overcoat which is finely moulded with small fasteners at the front and naturalistic folds and creases, the coat is decorated with yellow and green stylised lotus blooms on an aubergine ground and with the hems painted with bands of small flower-heads in green, yellow and aubergine on a green black-spotted ground, he is wearing tall black riding boots with white soles, the right boot almost completely visible and revealing a green sock and white patterned trousers, around his neck hangs a long beaded necklace in yellow, finished with a small tassel at the back of the neck and at the front, on his head he wears a traditional official's wide-brimmed conical court hat in black with a round finial on top from which red 'silk' tassels cold-painted in red pigment extends down from the finial to cover the hat, his finely modelled face highlighted in black with eyebrows, a moustache and a small beard, his mouth open in a wide grin revealing a slightly protruding tongue and a row of neat teeth, his brow furrowed, the head flanked by pendulous ears, his long hair braided into a thin plat painted in black, the right elbow resting on the right knee with the right hand holding on to the remains of a small object, probably a pipe, the left hand resting on the covered left leg, the base painted with scattered flowers in yellow and aubergine on a green black-spotted ground, all surrounded by a moulded rim painted in aubergine, the base unglazed and with a round, pierced coin-motif revealing the hollowed body.