A LARGE FAHUA CERAMIC FIGURE OF WEITUO, MING DYNASTY China, 16th-17th century. The guardian of the Buddhist faith portrayed standing with a diadem fronting a double top-knot, clad in armor with a scarf tied round the neck and fluttering ribbon draped across the shoulder, the face, hands and armor details highlighted in turquoise, aubergine and ochre glazes. Provenance: From the collection of Georg Weifert (1850-1937). Thence by descent in the same family. Weifert was a Serbo-Austrian industrialist and the first governor of the Federal Bank of the Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. Condition: Wear and traces of use, some chipping and losses throughout, minor old repair to tips of heavenly bands, fingers of left hand reattached, overall as expected of a large ceramic figure with circa 500 years of age. Weight: 9.9 kg Dimensions: Height 60.5 cm Auction result comparison: Compare with a Fahua figure of an immortal, dated 1499, at Christies New York in The Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Part III - Chinese Works of Art, 19 March 2015, lot 438, sold for USD $75,000. 大型法華彩韋陀像，明代 中國，十六至十七世紀。韋陀立像，頭戴頭盔，身著盔甲，整體施松綠色、紫色和赭石色釉。 來源：Georg Weifert (1850-1937)收藏，同一家族保存至今 。Weifert曾爲塞爾維亞中央銀行大班以及塞爾維亞、克羅地亞與斯洛文尼亞聯邦銀行大班。 品相：磨損和使用痕跡，一些開片和缺損，綬帶上有輕微老修補，左手指粘補過，總體狀況與其500年歷史相符。 重量：9.9 公斤 尺寸：高 60.5 厘米