A CHINESE BLANC-DE-CHINE FIGURE OF GUANDI. Qing Dynasty, 18th Century. The god of war seated in long robes and a stiff belt around his belly, his left leg streched out, adorned with a strapped hat decorated with a pearl amid clouds, the face with an austere expression and pierced in six places where strands of hair have been applied forming the beard and moustache, glazed white with a tinge of blue, the shoulders bearing an indistinct square four character inscription, all rested on an integral rectangular stand, 20.5cm H. 清十八世紀 德化窯關帝像