Ivory Figure of Fu Xing with Child, China, Late Qing–Early Republic, 1900–1930

Delicately carved Chinese ivory figure representing Fu Xing, the Star God of happiness, blessing, and descendants, depicted as a benevolent official carrying a smiling child on his shoulder. The child holds a peach, a traditional symbol of felicity, abundance, and auspicious fortune. The harmonious composition, expressive faces, and finely layered robes reflect skilled craftsmanship typical of early 20th-century ivory carving for the export and scholar’s market. Mounted on a fixed carved wooden base and preserved in its original blue fabric-lined presentation box. This sculpture forms one figure from a complete Fu Lu Shou set, customarily grouped with Lu Xing and Shou Xing, but here offered as an individual lot.

Minor age-related surface wear, a small stable hairline crack to the top of the head, otherwise intact; old chalk inventory number present on the side of the box.

Figure height incl. base 21.5 cm; box 27.5×12.5 cm.

Material: Ivory, wood.

From an old Austrian private collection, acquired early 1950 at Dorotheum in Vienna.

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