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A DEHUA FIGURE OF GUANYIN Flora E. Whiting (1881-1971) Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1971.
17TH-18TH CENTURY
明末/清十八世紀 德化白釉觀音坐像 《何朝宗》款
The fgure is shown seated with her right arm resting on a rock
formation and her left arm holding a fy whisk. She wears a fowing, 來源
long robe, and her contemplative face is framed by knotted tresses Flora E. Whiting（1881-1971）珍藏。
trailing onto the shoulders and drawn up into a topknot. The reverse 紐約大都會藝術博物館，入藏於1971年。
is impressed with a maker’s mark, He Chaochun.
6º in. (15.8 cm.) high, wood stand

$5,000-7,000

(mark)

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