Description: Chinese god of wealth Zhao Gongming, Tiger Bronze Statue Superbly detailed 15”H at 22 amazing lbs. Size does matter, details and Quality Casting too. Here is a great opportunity to compare size, weight and detail. Truly a centerpiece for a collector that doesn’t want a low cost reproduction. Caishen, in Chinese religion, the popular god (or gods) of wealth, widely believed to bestow on his devotees the riches carried about by his attendants. During the two-week New Year celebration, incenseis burned in Caishen’s temple (especially on the fifth day of the first lunar month), and friends joyously exchange the traditional New Year greeting “May you become rich” (“Gongxi facai”).The Ming-dynasty novel Fengshen Yanyi relates that when a hermit, Zhao Gongming, employed magic to support the collapsing Shang dynasty (12th century BCE), Jiang Ziya, a supporter of the subsequent Zhou-dynasty clan, made a straw effigy of Zhao and, after 20 days of incantations, shot an arrow made of peach-tree wood through the heart of the image. At that moment Zhao became ill and died. Later, during a visit to the temple of Yuan Shi, Jiang was rebuked for causing the death of a virtuous man. He carried the corpse, as ordered, into the temple, apologized for his misdeed, extolled Zhao’s virtues, and in the name of that god canonized Zhao as Caishen, god of wealth, and proclaimed him president of the Ministry of Wealth. (Some accounts reverse the dynastic loyalties of Zhao and Jiang.)
Price: 784 USD
Location: Pompano Beach, Florida
End Time: 2025-01-17T18:14:32.000Z
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Primary Material: Bronze
Color: Bronze
Theme: Buddha, Rider, Spiritual Figure, Warrior
Original/Reproduction: Antique Original
Animal Type: Tiger
Height: 15in. (38cm)
Features: Casting
Region of Origin: China
Age: Pre-1800
