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THE PROPERTY OF MARCHANT, EST. 1925
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A RARE DEHUA FIGURE OF BUDDHA
LATE MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY
The fgure is fnely modeled standing on a lotus pedestal, wearing layered robes elegantly draped over the
left arm and tucked in at the waist leaving the chest bare. In his right hand he holds a round jewel, while his
right arm is held pendent at his side, and his face is modeled with a serene expression beneath the tightly
curled hair. A four-character seal mark, Huijiang Shanren, is impressed on the back of the fgure.
17 in. (43.2 cm.) high
$15,000-20,000

PROVENANCE
Roger Duchange, Paris, February 1979.
An important private collection, Saint Cloud, France.

According to R. H. Blumenfeld, Blanc de Chine: The Great Porcelain of Dehua, Berkeley/Toronto, 2002,
p. 139, the mark Huijiang Shanren (‘Hermit of the Hui River’) “was applied to an anonymous ceramic
sculpture artist of the Ming period who lived in seclusion in Dehua,” and “excelled in sculpting Buddhist
fgures.” Two variations of the mark are also recorded by P. J. Donnelly in Blanc de Chine: The Porcelain
of Tehua in Fukien, New York and Washington, 1969, p. 359, Appendix 4, no. 8b (with raised characters
and a border), and no. 8c (with raised characters but no border, as on the present Buddha fgure), and
a fgure of Guanyin with a Huijiang Shanren mark, also with no border, is illustrated ibid. pl. 82A.
晚明十七世紀 德化白釉佛立像
款識：茴江山人

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