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A DEHUA FIGURE OF SEATED GUANYIN

MING DYNASTY, 16TH-EARLY 17TH CENTURY, HE CHAOZONG IMPRESSED SEAL MARK
The Bodhisattva is modelled in a relaxed pose with one leg crossed over the other, holding a
scroll in her proper left hand. She is dressed in long flowing robes and her hair is fastened in
an elaborate knot held by a ruyi-form hairpin. The reverse is impressed with the maker's mark
He Chaozong within a double gourd.
10º in. (26 cm.) high
HK$1,200,000-1,800,000 US$160,000-230,000

Compare to a very similar example with an impressed He Chaozong mark illustrated by John Ayers,
Blanc De Chine - Devine Images in Porcelain, 2002, no. 34 and another currently exhibited at the
Cleveland Museum of Art (museum no. 18.2018).

明十六/十七世紀初 德化白釉觀音坐像 「何朝宗」印款
一件與此像極為相似並帶有何朝宗印款之例，載於John Ayers著，《Blanc De Chine - Devine Images
in Porcelain》，2002年，編號34；另一近似例現展於克利夫蘭藝術博物館（館藏編號 18.2018）。 (mark)

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