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A DEHUA FIGURE OF
SEATED GUANYIN
LATE MING DYNASTY,
17TH CENTURY
The bodhisattva is shown seated in
rajalilasana on a rockwork throne with
right hand resting on her knee and wearing
voluminous robes, a beaded necklace and a
cowl draped above her foral-scroll tiara.

9Ω in. (24.1 cm.) high

$10,000-15,000

PROVENANCE

Captain J. Meuldijk Collection,
the Netherlands.

Compare the Dehua fgure of Guanyin
seated in a similar pose on a rockwork
throne, also wearing full robes and a cowl
over her hair, of comparable size (9¬ in.),
and dated ca. 1650-1700, in the Koger
Collection, Ringling Museum of Art,
Florida, illustrated by J. Ayers, Blanc de
Chine: Divine Images in Porcelain, China
Institute, New York, 2002, p. 85, no. 36.

明末十七世紀 德化白釉觀音坐像

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