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IMPORTANT CHINESE ART INCLUDING THE COLLECTION OF DOROTHY TAPPER GOLDMAN 重要中४藝術暨高曼珍藏

Various Properties
ⱷ955
AN UNUSUAL CARVED DEHUA
'SHOULAO IN LANDSCAPE' VASE
17TH CENTURY
14q in. (37 cm.) high
$6,000-8,000

A carved Dehua vase of similar form in the collection
of the Guangdong Municipal Museum was included in
the Guangdong Municipal Museum exhibition Sailing
the Seven Seas: Legend of Ming Maritime Trade
during the Wanli Era, 23 September 2015-23 March
2016, pp. 181-82.

十ˑˠ紀 德٪白釉ח壽老山水圖瓶
ⱷ956
A DEHUA FIGURE OF SEATED
GUANYIN
EARLY 17TH CENTURY, HE CHAOZONG IMPRESSED
SEAL MARK
10º in. (26 cm.) high
$80,000-100,000
PROVENANCE:
P. C. Lu & Sons, Ltd., Hong Kong (according to label).

Unlike the factories at Jingdezhen, porcelain
production at Dehua was not under Imperial
supervision; reign marks were therefore rarely used,
and instead potters sometimes impressed their own
seals or workshops marks. Some of these marked
pieces have come to enjoy great prestige among
collectors, most notably the works of He Chaozong.
His Guanyin figures are graceful and serene, often
with finely detailed accessories such as the fine ruyi
hairpin, necklace, and elegant figures of the present
example. Despite his renown, little is known about the
potter, but modern scholarship now considers a late
Ming dynasty/17th century date to be most likely for
his dates of activity.
A closely related figure of Guanyin, also with a He
Chaozong mark, and seated in the same posture with
a scroll and hairpin, but atop a reed mat, was included
in the exhibition at the China Institute Gallery and
illustrated by J. Ayers, Blanc de Chine: Divine Images
in Porcelain, New York, 2002, p. 83, no. 34.

明十ˑˠ紀׀ 德٪白釉觀音ঙ像
印款：Ǚΰ朝宗ǚ
Ϝ源
魯氏ḍ子有限Ռ司，香港（據標籤）

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