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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
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A FINELY MODELLED DEHUA SEATED
FIGURE OF GUANYIN
LATE MING-EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY
The Bodhisattva is modelled in a relaxed pose with
one leg crossed over the other, holding a scroll in her
right hand. She is dressed in long flowing robes and her
hair is fastened in an elaborate knot held by a ruyi-form
hairpin. The reverse is impressed with the mark Lin
Xizong yin (Seal of Lin Xizong) within a square.
8 Ω in. (21.8 cm.) high, wood stand, fitted wood box
HK$200,000-300,000 US$26,000-39,000
Compare to a slightly smaller Dehua figure depicting
Guanyin in a very similar pose, also stamped with a Lin
Xizong mark, from Yamanaka Kyoto and then in the
collection of F. Bailey Vanderhoef, Jr., sold at Sotheby’s
London, 14 May 2014, lot 27. Another seated Dehua Guanyin
figure in a reclining pose, also bearing the same mark, is
illustrated by P.J. Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, New York, 1969,
pl. 141B.
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