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A DehuA figure of BuDDhA
Hui Jiang shan ren seal mark, Late Ming, 17th century
The standing figure expertly modelled with long robes, the serene
face with a small raised urna and flanked with elongated ears,
the head covered with typical tight coils of hair, the right hand in
bhumisparsa mudra, all raised on a lotus plinth.
42cm (16 1/2in) high

£4,000 - 6,000 HK$47,000 - 71,000
CNY38,000 - 57,000

For comparable figures of a standing Buddha see Marchant,
Blanc de Chine, 2006, no. 4, p. 14; and Marchant, Blanc-
de-Chine, 2014, no. 7, p. 20; another, with the mark Zhang
Shoushan, now in the British Museum, is illustrated in M.
Medley, The World’s Great Collections Vol. 6 The Percival David
Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1982, no. 205, collection no.
414.
For another comparable example sold at auction see Christie’s
London, 03/11/09, no. 306, p. 194.
The four-character seal mark Hui Jian shan ren ‘The Hermit Hui
Jiang’ is recorded by P. J. Donnelly, Blanc-de-Chine, London
1969 under Potter’s Marks, Fancy Names, F8.b, p. 359. where he
illustrates a Guanyin with the same mark.

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