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A FINE WOOD ‘GUANYIN AND CHILD’ CARVING A FINE BAMBOO CARVING OF GUANYIN
Late Ming Dynasty 18th century
The Goddess of Mercy seated in the position of Royal Ease, her right The figure elegantly modelled, wearing long flowing robes with
hand holding a rosary, a young boy clambering on her left knee, the elaborate drapery, standing holding a ruyi sceptre and gourd flask
finely incised hair falling in a point down her back, wearing elegant suspended from a cord, the hair pulled up in a high knot and face
long, flowing robes with decorated hems, the wood of lustrous dark with serene, smiling expression, fitted box.
patina. 12cm (4.3/4in) high. (2).
10.2cm (4in) high.
£6,000 - 8,000
£4,000 - 6,000 HK$59,000 - 78,000
HK$39,000 - 59,000 CNY53,000 - 71,000
CNY35,000 - 53,000

This rare figure relates closely to ivory examples of the same date,
discussed in Watson, ‘Chinese Ivories from the Shang to the Qing’,
p.53, and note particularly fig.15, a woodblock print illustration of the
white-robed Guanyin holding a child, from the Ming encyclopaedia
San cui tu hui, (compiled in 1609).

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