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A BLANC-DE-CHINE FIGURE OF BUDDHA AMITABHA
Late Ming Dynasty
Standing on a lotus base and wearing a long and flowing robe, tied
just above the waist, the chest adorned with a wan medallion hanging
from a beaded necklace, holding a sphere in the left hand before the
chest.
26cm (10 1/4in) high.

£3,000 - 5,000
CNY27,000 - 45,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

明晚期 德化窰白釉無量壽佛立像

Provenance: J.M. Hu (1910-1993)
Christie’s New York, 1 October 2009, lot 382.

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: J.C.Y.Watt, Te Hua Porcelain,
Hong Kong, 1975, no.74.
Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2012, no.38

來源：胡惠春（1910-1993）舊藏
紐約佳士得，2009年10月1日，拍品編號382

展覽著錄：J.C.Y.Watt，《德化瓷器》，香港，1975年，編號74
Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2012年，編號38

During more than half a century, J.M.Hu acquired an exceptional
group of Chinese ceramics—and in particular Imperial porcelain—that
illuminated the rich history of China and its people. In both his personal
collection and in his bequests to cultural institutions, J.M. Hu stood
as a model of the modern scholar-collector. He established the Min
Chiu Society in Hong Kong alongside fellow collectors K.P. Chen and
J.S. Lee. He also gifted substantial group from his collection to the
191 Shanghai Museum in 1950 and 1989; many of these objects remain
on view in the museum’s Zande Lou Gallery. His family’s set of Imperial
zitan furniture was sent to the National Palace Museum in Taipei for
display; and he returned the important ‘Siming’ version of the Huashan
Temple stele rubbing to the Palace Museum, Beijing.

For a similar blanc-de-Chine figure of Buddha, late Ming dynasty,
see H.Garner, The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, London, 1957, no.97.
See also a related blanc-de-Chine figure of Buddha illustrated by
P.J.Donnelly, Blanc De Chine, New York, 1969, pl.156.

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A BLANC-DE-CHINE FIGURE OF GUANYIN WITH TWO
ACOLYTES
17th century
The group finely modelled with the Goddess of Mercy seated cross-
legged in long flowing robes atop a craggy rock, her hands resting on
her lap in dhyanamudra, the serene face with down-cast eyes below a
high chignon covered by a cowl, flanked with her attendants Sudhana
and an official in cap, all covered in a creamy-white glaze.
23cm (9in) high.
£1,500 - 2,000
CNY14,000 - 18,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

十七世紀 德化白釉觀音及隨侍像

Compare with a related blanc-de-Chine figure of Guanyin and acolyte,
late Ming dynasty, illustrated by P.J.Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, New
York, 1969, pl.72.A. See also a related example illustrated by B.Dam-
Mikkelsen and T.Lundbæk, Ethnographic Objects in The Royal Danish
Kunstkammer 1650–1800, Copenhagen, 1980, EBa13; and one in the
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, illustrated by J.Ayers, Blanc de Chine:
Divine Images in Porcelain, New York, 2002, no.50.

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