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A large blanc-de-chine figure of Guanyin
18th/19th century, two Xu Yunlin zhi four-character marks
The impressive Goddess of Mercy modelled with downcast eyes
beneath hair bound in a high topknot fastened with a long pin and
set with a tiara containing the Amitabha Buddha flanked by roses,
the arms folded gently in front of the body and covered by flowing
robes revealing strands of Buddhist jewellery and one bare foot
standing on a scaly fish coiling through foaming waves.
84cm (33in) high
£8,000 - 12,000
HK$100,000 - 150,000 CNY79,000 - 120,000
十八/十九世紀 德化白瓷觀音立像 「許雲麟製」篆書模款
Provenance: a European private collection
來源：歐洲私人收藏
This figure is marked 許雲麟製 Xu Yunlin zhi (Made by Xu Yunlin)
who produced mainly figures from AD 1785 to AD 1815. See P. J.
Donnelly, Blanc De Chine, New York and Washington, 1969, p.286
and p.358.
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