Stone carving
Category
Objets de vertu
Date
Unknown
Materials
Soapstone, Wood
Measurements
150 x 76 x 23 mm
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Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion
NT 548476
Summary
Carved soapstone figure of Liu Hai, the god of coins, seated on his companion the coin-spitting, three-legged toad, on a separate carved base representing rockwork. Chinese, probably late 19th or early 20th century.
Provenance
An item from the Pamela Ward collection, left to the National Trust in the will of Miss Ward in 1994
Marks and inscriptions
45 (on base)