22 cm.（8 5/8 in.）high

Provenance：
Formerly in the collection of Werner Jacobsen（1914-79），Copenhagen
Werner Jacobson was a famed Danish Archaeologist，Ethnographer，Art Collector and Museum Director. Jacobsen studied archeology and in 1938-39 when 21 years old participated in the Danish Royal Geographic Society's Expedition to Mongolia under the lead of Henning Haslund Christensens. During the war he worked for the Danish National Museum. Between 1946-59 he lived in India and Nepal and acquired many pieces for the National Museum in Denmark，The Royal Library，the Moesgård Museum and himself. He set up a scientific center in Kathmandu，Nepal and later in Denmark where he organized all the material and information he had gathered. In 1961 he became Museum Director for the Ethnographic Collection. 1963-78 he was the head of the information and educational Department at the Museum. The collection was acquired from Werner Jacobsen as a whole when he sold it to gather funds for new expeditions. The figure was purchased at that time and has passed by descent to the previous owner.
In his lifetime he published many works on a wide variety of Asian subjects from Buddhist sculpture though Mongolian bronzes and Japanese Kabuki Theatre to India.

Price estimate:
HKD: 160,000 - 210,000
USD: 20,700 - 27,200

Auction Result:
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