A WHITE GLAZED DEHUA PORCELAIN FIGURE OF BUDAI, QING China, 1644-1912. The Laughing Buddha is wearing a long, flowing garment and holding his characteristic cloth sack, a rosary with a double-gourd bottle around his neck. The exuberantly joyful face with openwork and incisions. Condition: Good condition with minor wear as well as firing flaws. 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. Weight: 1,580 g. Dimensions: Height 20.2 cm.