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A DEHUA FIGURE OF GUANYIN
17TH CENTURY
The fgure is shown seated with her head slightly inclined,
and hands hidden within the folds of the full robes wrapped
around her body. She wears an ornate bead necklace, and
the hair is pulled up into a high chignon. The maker’s
mark He Chao Zong is incised within a double gourd on
the back. The glaze is of ivory tone.
7√ in. (20 cm.) high, wood stand
$30,000-50,000
PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Holland.
A similarly modeled fgure of Guanyin, also bearing the mark of
He Chao Zong, but with the hands revealed to hold a rosary and
a scroll, in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, is illustrated by P.
Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, New York, 1969, pl. 146, fg. A.
明末清初 德化白釉觀音坐像
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