明萬曆 犀角雕「和合二仙」坐像 《大明萬曆年製》款

superbly carved as the Hehe twins, wearing long robes falling around them in numerous undulating folds, seated shoulder to shoulder with their toes sneaking outside the bottom edge, both with finely-detailed, expressive faces with broad grins, dimples and wavy hair, one holding a bat, the other with a circular, broad-rimmed straw hat trailing down the back to a covered wicker box, the base lacquered and painted in gilt with a six-character mark in three columns within a wide key-fret band

紐約蘇富比1994年11月28日，編號130

There is some expected wear and minor nicks in areas, some age cracks with small filled-in repairs around the edges of the robes, wear and rubbing to the gilding under the base with slight retouching to the lacquer, but overall the group is in fairly good condition.
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犀角雕像甚稀，而如本品之署年款者更罕。和合二仙，有和睦及「和氣生財」之徵，是以古時商人篤信，祈獲二仙庇佑。有一相若犀角雕和合二仙例，兩人共執蝙蝠一只，售於香港蘇富比 1987年5月20日，編號623，並載於 Jan Chapman，《中國的犀牛角雕刻藝術》， 倫敦，1999年，頁108，圖102右。書中作者指，據其器形，未知為非洲或亞洲角，猜該器或以蘇門犀牛後角雕成（出處同上，頁109）。 另有一組和合二仙角雕，底刻萬曆年款，售於紐約佳士得1984年6月2日，編號6，可作比對。

犀角雕像例，可參考倫敦 Marcel Lorber、瑪麗及莊智博舊藏布袋佛雕像，售於2005年10月23日，編號34。另可見一羅漢坐像，出處同上，圖版103。上海博物館藏觀音像，也可作參考，載於霍滿棠，《中國犀角雕刻珍賞》，香港，1999年，圖版77，同書並載賽克勒珍藏文殊菩提坐像，見圖版76。有一菩薩雕像，斷代為明，刊於《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集‧竹木牙角雕刻》，上海，2001年，圖版137，圖錄中並見晚明布袋佛像，圖版138。